Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:58:08 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@hodgsonhouse.com> To: Jason Borkowsky <jcborkow@tcpns.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using VINUM to do RAID-1 disk mirroring Message-ID: <20020311105807.B7625@hodgsonhouse.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0203111127290.3699-100000@bemused.tcpns.com>; from jcborkow@tcpns.com on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:41AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0203111127290.3699-100000@bemused.tcpns.com>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Jason Borkowsky wrote: > I have two FreeBSD machines, both containing a pair of identical hard > drives. I am looking to set up vinum to mirror the hard drives, and am not > having any success. I have searched the FreeBSD archives, the vinum website, > and other websites as well. > > Here is what I've found so far: > > Each drive needs to have the file system type changed from FreeBSD to vinum. > I have done this no problem. (A side question I have about this is will this > affect me if I reboot the machine or am an single user mode? What effects > does changing the file system type have?) > > So now I have two drives, /dev/ad0s1 and /dev/ad2s1 (IDE devices). FreeBSD > calls partition "c:" the complete drive, so on one drive (the drive I want > mirrored), I have all my file partitions. On the drive I want to mirror to, > I only have one partition, c:, which is the whole drive. Before I mirror, do > I need to set up identical partitions? According to the man pages, it seems > I don't have to. > > Now, in the man pages, under "Simplified Configuration", it states that to > mirror a drive, all I need to do is: > > vinum -> mirror -v /dev/ad0s1c /dev/ad2s1c Try: http://www.matts.org/vinum.shtml Keep in mind tha with vinum the mirror command doesn't specify Unix devices (i.e. /dev/ad0s1c), it specifies vinum *drives*. -T -- "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS." (By Tarl Neustaedter) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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