Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:07:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com> Cc: xavian anderson macpherson <professional3d@home.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: "Defining" vinum (was: APOLOGIES GIVEN TO ALL) Message-ID: <20001004100745.A7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 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>
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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
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