Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:05:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem newfsing vinum volume Message-ID: <20000524110521.B96290@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005230741450.29319-100000@hobbes> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005230741450.29319-100000@hobbes>
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On Tuesday, 23 May 2000 at 7:51:55 -0600, Brad Waite wrote: > Okay, I finally got my drives installed and partitioned as follows: > > ad0: > a: 7473152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 465*) > b: 524288 7473152 swap # (Cyl. 465*- 497*) > c: 80035767 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4981*) > e: 72038327 7997440 vinum # (Cyl. 497*- 4981*) > > ad1: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > ad2: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > 4 gigs of ad0 are used for FBSD and swap. The rest of ad0 and all of ad1 & ad2 > are intended for vinum. Since, as I understand it, vinum requires all the > subdisks to be the same size, I split the drives into 3908MB subdisks, 10 sd's > on ad1 & ad2, and 9 on ad0 for a total of 29 subdisks. > > Here's my vinum cfg file: > drive a device /dev/ad0s1e > drive b device /dev/ad1s1e > drive c device /dev/ad2s1e > volume whopper > plex org raid5 512k > sd length 3908m drive a > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > [ all 3 lines repeated 8 times ] > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > > Now I try to do a newfs: > > # newfs -v /dev/vinum/whopper > newfs: /dev/vinum/whopper: Input/output error > # vinum l whopper > V whopper State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 106 GB > > > Why can't I newfs the volume? Because it's down. It's difficult to know why, since you haven't supplied the information asked for in the man page and http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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