Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?
rtjohan at syspres.com
rtjohan at syspres.com
Wed Oct 22 10:08:43 PDT 2003
>>For instance you have partition "e" with size=3142987 and offset
>>5242880, but the var volume uses sd len 3142987s driveoffset 524864s
>>drive rootdev. Why is it necessary for each subdisk to be 16 lower
>>then the partition it will be mapping?
>>
>>
>Take /var for example. It's on partition e, which starts at offset
>5242880 from the beginning of the disk. The subdisk starts at offset
>5242864 from the beginning of the drive. The drive starts at offset
>16 from the beginning of the disk, so the subdisk starts at 5242880
>from the beginning of the disk.
>
>
Thanks for clarifying the difference between disk vs drive. That's the
part I didn't understand well enough. I used those 16 subdisk offsets in
my vinum config file, just didn't understand why they were there for all
the subdisks. Now I do.
Thanks,
Richard
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