Flakey gvinum
Neal Nelson
nealie at kobudo.homeunix.net
Wed Nov 10 01:08:53 PST 2004
Is anyone using gvinum under 5.3 for mirroring? I had vinum working
fine under 5.2.1 but now I've done a clean install with 5.3 and I can't
for the life of me get gvinum to work properly.
I've got the following setup which seems to work:
drive root_disc_o device /dev/ad0s1b
volume root
plex org concat
sd drive root_disc_0 length 0
I have similar for both swap and /usr.
When I add a mirror for / and swap all seems to work fine. When I try
to so the same for /usr, it defines it OK but when I start it I get
thousands of messages on the console. Unfortunately it's all too fast
for me to see what they say and they don't seem to be in
/var/log/messages.
My system is now a bit stuck. I've managed to zero the second disc so
there are no drives defined for it but gvinum still knows about the
plexes and sd's. I can seem to rm the plexes but when I try to rm the
sd my machine panics.
I've had no end of trouble installing this using gvinum. Is it really
that fragile as I seem to be able to crash it quite easily. I'm ready
to give up with mirroring as it's giving me just too much trouble.
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