From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 17:39:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC71C37B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e940bjM07374; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:07:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:07:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Rued Cc: xavian anderson macpherson , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: "Defining" vinum (was: APOLOGIES GIVEN TO ALL) Message-ID: <20001004100745.A7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39D8FAA6.3C2CE669@home.com> <14809.216.377993.679478@chris.xsb.com> <39D90385.C9397AEA@home.com> <20001003113126.D759@wantadilla.lemis.com> <39D948C3.44B4D479@home.com> <14809.20183.190794.578203@chris.xsb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <14809.20183.190794.578203@chris.xsb.com>; from c.rued@xsb.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:13:27PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 2 October 2000 at 23:13:27 -0400, Christopher Rued wrote: > xavian anderson macpherson writes: >> i have been told that i have to wait until after i have installed my >> system, before i can define a vinum volume. >> what do i have to do? install a small incomplete but running system, >> only so that i can later specify the vinum volume on a separate >> partition? > > As I mentioned, I have not used vinum (although I am now very > interested in it), so I cannot tell you exactly how to set it up. > From what I gather, what your question boils down to is: > > "I want to install FreeBSD, and I want to set up my filesystem using > vinum. How do I do this?" > > Perhaps it is best to allow someone more qualified (Greg :)) to > answer this question for you, as I have no working knowledge of > vinum. I have had working code for Vinum root, but it's not as simple as that: 1. It needs to be rewritten. 2. It will be implemented in -CURRENT first, and due to major changes in -CURRENT, it might be a while before it gets to 4-STABLE. 3. Even then, we need to fix sysinstall in order to be able to install on a Vinum volume. Probably what I will do will be to allow external partitions as Vinum subdisks. This would mean that you can install FreeBSD normally, leaving some space on the drive for a (possibly empty) Vinum drive. Then you configure Vinum and add the existing non-Vinum partitions as subdisks to Vinum plexes. Unfortunately, due to other commitments, I won't be able to do this in the immediate future. 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