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Long/short syndrome. On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 18:10:37 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt >> Ruby wrote: >>> Is this possible? >>> ... >> >> Yes. >> >>> ... >> >> In the case of a failed drive, Vinum knows all about it, just not >> where it is. In your case Vinum doesn't know about the new disk; >> you have to tell it. Do that with an incremental configuration >> file just describing the new objects. >> >> I'm attaching a draft from the upcoming 4th edition of "The >> Complete FreeBSD". Take a look at it and tell me if anything's >> unclear. > > Thanks for replying so quickly. My existing drive seems now to be > in the process of dying, so copying its contents has been more time > consuming than I expected (due to many IDE timeouts). This means > I'll be getting a 3rd drive to use for the mirror, too. > > Anyway, I'm assuming that with this original configuration: > > drive drive1 device /dev/ad0s1e > volume var setupstate > plex org concat > sd length 256m drive drive1 > volume usr setupstate > plex org concat > sd length 0 drive drive1 You don't need setupstate if you only have one plex. It doesn't do any harm; it just doesn't make any difference. > this second configuration should work: > > drive drive2 device /dev/ad2s1e > plex name var.p1 org concat volume var > sd length 256m drive drive2 > plex name usr.p1 org concat volume usr > sd length 0 drive drive2 Yes. > assuming equal-sized drives, and that a "start var.p1" and "start > usr.p1" should get them going. Yes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
