Vinum - plex larger than volume

Ingeborg Hellemo Ingeborg.Hellemo at cc.uit.no
Wed Sep 24 05:38:10 PDT 2003


FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6

I am trying to stripe two large (1.3 TB) disks into one vinum volume.


/# ls -la  /dev/vinum/
total 1
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Sep 24 16:34 .
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Sep 24 16:34 ..

/# vinum
vinum -> stripe -v /dev/twed0a /dev/twed1a
drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/twed0a
drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/twed1a
volume vinum0
  plex name vinum0.p0 org striped 279k
    sd name vinum0.p0.s0 drive vinumdrive0 size 2734359125b
    sd name vinum0.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 size 2734359125b
Can't create /dev/vinum/vinum0: File exists
Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0: No such file or directory
Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex: No such file or directory
Can't create /dev/vinum/plex/vinum0.p0: File exists
Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex/vinum0.p0: No such file or directory
Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex/vinum0.p0.sd: No such file or directory
Can't create /dev/vinum/sd/vinum0.p0.s0: File exists
Can't create /dev/vinum/sd/vinum0.p0.s1: File exists
V vinum0                State: up       Plexes:       1 Size:        559 GB
P vinum0.p0           S State: up       Subdisks:     2 Size:       2607 GB
S vinum0.p0.s0          State: up       D: vinumdrive0  Size:       1303 GB
S vinum0.p0.s1          State: up       D: vinumdrive1  Size:       1303 GB




Why all these "Can't create" errors?

But most important, why is the plex larger than the volume?


--Ingeborg
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Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo  --  ingeborg at cc.uit.no  (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)




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