Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:56:40 +0200 From: FreeBSD usergroup <freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror Message-ID: <0B938031-FDF5-4E89-A274-FD93562BC8DF@amadeus.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <433C4718.6050809@mykitchentable.net> References: <57416b300509290428dc2bc97@mail.gmail.com> <334F213D-52A9-4157-B6B8-E961EF47DC31@amadeus.demon.nl> <433C4718.6050809@mykitchentable.net>
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On 29 sep 2005, at 21:57, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 9/29/2005 10:04 AM FreeBSD usergroup wrote: > > >> >> On 29 sep 2005, at 13:28, Peter Clutton wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi, I have gone through the docs on this but am just missing a >>> couple of points >>> conceptually, and would be grateful for any help. >>> >>> Basically i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted >>> them >>> (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running >>> correctly. >>> I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a >>> mirror by typing >>> mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful >>> messages and gave the drive a name and said it's "up". >>> >>> I'm just wondering after this point, can i just type quit and >>> it's up >>> and running? I noticed on reboot the directories that were my mount >>> point for these partitions say they are "not a directory" now. Do i >>> need to go on and mount the mirror? Or did i make a mistake mounting >>> these partitions before creating the mirror. How do i utilize it >>> after >>> issuing the mirror command. >>> Many thanks in advance. >>> >>> >> >> Which FBSD release do you use? >> >> basically (FBSD < 5.3) >> for vinum you just have to type: >> vinum start >> after a reboot and it'll read the config from the disks and put >> the volume in /dev/vinum/ >> from there you can mount it manually or add a line to /etc/fstab >> > > Neither of this is probably necessary. Vinum started automatically > when 'vinum' was typed on the console to create the mirror. Once > the mirror was created and shown as 'up', the volume was created > in /dev/vinum. However there is something you need to add to /etc/ > rc.conf to have vinum start automatically upon booting and thus > make your volume available for mounting. Seems it was > 'vinum_enable = "yes"' or something like that. Search /etc/ > defaults/rc.conf for the exact line. > > HTH, > > Drew > > -- In some releases 'vinum_enable=yes' in /etc/conf caused a kernel panic at boot. Hence my question what OS... Arno
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