Help setting up Vinum mirror

FreeBSD usergroup freebsd at amadeus.demon.nl
Thu Sep 29 10:04:11 PDT 2005


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

Arno



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