Vinum Problem

[Robert Slade]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 16:59, Ean Kingston wrote:
> On March 27, 2005 10:35 am, Robert Slade wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have managed to setup a vinum volume using 2 striped disks, the volume
> > is created and I can do newfs on it and mount it.
> >
> > However, when I set start_vinum="YES" in rc.conf, vinum loads then I get
> > panic, followed by hanging vnode.
> >
> > I'm using 5.3.
> >
> > Any pointers please.
> 
> In 5.3, you need to use gvinum instead of vinum. To do this set 
> start_vinum="NO" in /etc/rc.conf and set geom_vinum_load="YES" 
> in /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> gvinum will read your vinum configuration just fine so you only need to make 
> the changes I suggested to get it to work.
> 
> Althought this is documented, it is not what I would call 'well documented' 
> yet.

Ean,

Thank you, that got me further, I appears to have created a new
/dev/gvinum/test, which seems to the right size, but when I mount it as
/test, I get not a directory when I try and ls it.

I have tried to find documentation on geom, but that seems to be related
to mirroring.

Rob