vinum concatenated raid setup problems

Mike Maltese mike at pcmedx.com
Thu Oct 23 22:08:08 PDT 2003


> The problems:
> 1 - I am able to build the RAID, create a filesystem, and mount to a
> directory in the tree. But I am not able to figure out how to add an
> entry to my /etc/fstab file so that it is automatically mounted on
> reboot. I have looked in the handbook and all it says is to "add the
> proper entries".  I simple do not know what entry to add.

Should be something like:

/dev/vinum/yourvolume   /mountpoint   ufs   rw   1   2

> 2 - On reboot, the vinum config is erased. (or at least thats what it
> looks like...see dmesg output for info) It is my understanding that on
> reboot, vinum reads it's configuration from each vinum drive. Since I
> was able to create and mount the RAID, I assume that the configuration
> would still be there on reboot, even thought it is not being mounted
> with fstab (see problem 1). I have tried this on several systems and
> have yet to be successful in having a vinum config survive reboot. I
> have re-read and re-read the vinum section in the handbook and have
> looked elsewhere but have had no luck :(

Have you tried 'start_vinum="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf?


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