Hello all, I have been trying without success to implement a simple vinum concatenated RAID system made up of 2 IDE drives. The boot drive is located on another physical drive and is not part of the RAID.
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. 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 :( Relevent Info: I have not made any changes to system or vinum sources. The system is a generic 5.1 installed from FTP today. >From the box: ####VINUM STATE BEFORE REBOOT ###### vinum -> l 2 drives: D a State: up /dev/ad2 A: 981/28629 MB (3%) D b State: up /dev/ad3 A: 981/28629 MB (3%) 1 volumes: V core State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 27 GB 2 plexes: P core.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 27 GB P core.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 27 GB 2 subdisks: S core.p0.s0 State: up D: a Size: 27 GB S core.p1.s0 State: up D: b Size: 27 GB #################################### #####VINUM STATE AFTER REBOOT ###### vinum -> l 0 drives: 0 volumes: 0 plexes: 0 subdisks: #################################### #########VINUM CONFIG FILE########## thegibsor# cat vinum_config drive a device /dev/ad2 drive b device /dev/ad3 volume core plex org concat sd length 27g drive a plex org concat sd length 27g drive b #################################### ####RELEVANT DMESG BEFORE REBOOT#### ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 ad3: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA100 acd0: CDROM <LTN486S> at ata0-slave PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a vinum: drive a is up vinum: drive b is up vinum: core.p0.s0 is up vinum: core.p0 is up vinum: core is up vinum: core.p1 is faulty vinum: core.p1.s0 is reviving, not up vinum: core.p1.s0 is up by force vinum: core.p1 is up vinum: core.p1.s0 is up #################################### ####RELEVANT DMESG AFTER REBOOT##### ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 ad3: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 30> [58168/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA100 acd0: CDROM <LTN486S> at ata0-slave PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a #################################### ###########UNAME OUTPUT############# $ uname -a FreeBSD thegibsor.thebeatbox.org 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i3 86 #################################### _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"