Help setting up Vinum mirror

FreeBSD usergroup freebsd at amadeus.demon.nl
Thu Sep 29 13:56:46 PDT 2005


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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