The vinium doc. - my suggestions

[Orest Onuszko]

Hello!

I have been configuring Vinum on FreeBSD 6.2 stable following this doc:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html#VINUM-SYNOPSIS
It has not been so hard as people say but I've wasted quite a bit of my time 
because of lack of some important informations in the handbook. To improve 
your doc I would suggest you to do some tweaking by adding what I included 
below.


- To create root partition illusion i had to add driveoffset parameter in my 
vinum conf. Without it I couldn't use filesystem created 
under /dev/gvinum/myroot for booting because the filesystem had been seen as 
corrupted one.

- In object naming section should be provided a note reffering to slices, in 
particular:
"If you use slices then a vinum's config file should be reffering to ad0s1 not 
ad0"

- I've had some problems with mounting vinum volume during the booting.
May  9 14:52:28 cel433 kernel: GEOM_VINUM: subdisk nsm.p0.s1 state change: 
down 
-> stale
May  9 14:52:28 cel433 kernel: GEOM_VINUM: subdisk nsm.p0.s0 state change: 
down 
-> stale
May  9 14:52:37 cel433 kernel: g_vfs_done():gvinum/nsm[READ(offset=65536, 
length
=8192)]error = 6
May  9 14:42:56 cel433 kernel: g_vfs_done():gvinum/nsm[READ(offset=65536, 
length
=8192)]error = 6

After some googling I've found that for newly created volumes I should type 
"vinum create volumename". It has worked out for me but prior to this command 
I had to reboot. 

If those informations were included in the handbook It would be much easier 
for me to configure vinum.  It's better to have all basic informations in one 
place instead of be forced to googling for them. 
I hope this will help you out to create more complex documentation. :)

Best regards!


-- 
Orest Onuszko 

IT Administrator 

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