Re: Vinum problems on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 28 mei 2005, at 02:21, Kris Kirby wrote: Trying to make a mirror of two slices, but I see to be running into some issues here. I'm not on questions, so please CC me on all replies. Maybe it's a good idea to subscribe cuz then you would have been able to read what we wrote about this

Vinum problems on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-05-28 Thread Kris Kirby
Trying to make a mirror of two slices, but I see to be running into some issues here. I'm not on questions, so please CC me on all replies. # /etc/vinum.conf volume var plex name var.p0 org concat drive va device /dev/ad0s1g sd name var.p0.s0 drive va length 256m plex name var.p1 org concat

Multiple Vinum Problems Since Upgrade From 4.9 To 4.10

2004-12-24 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Since an upgrade from 4.9 to 4.10, I've had problems with vinum. The basic problem is that upon reboot, two of my vinum drives show up as referenced and thus create the associated chaos. I've tried many things and fiddled around quite a bit so I can't say exactly what I've done. I can

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread
Chris Smith wrote: Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation. Some questions? 1. The set has just failed completely (sorry it isn't up and working now) on the first reboot. It

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:36, wrote: [...] From my point of view, vinum root partition is really useless. You will never have the availability comparable to hardware RAID (i mean, downtime), and will have a lot of troubles with booting from

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-17 Thread Gary Dunn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:51, Chris Smith wrote: [snip] ... Can you boot off a striped volume and will it benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a concat? I don't think you can boot off a vinum partition, because you have to load vinum *after* the kernel is running.

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 23:10:22 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:51, Chris Smith wrote: [snip] ... Can you boot off a striped volume and will it benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a concat? I don't think you can boot off a vinum

vinum problems

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Smith
Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation. Some questions? 1. The set has just failed completely (sorry it isn't up and working now) on the first reboot. It is possible to

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 18:51:38 +, Chris Smith wrote: Hi, I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a RAID1 root formation. Some questions? How about some details first? There's not

Vinum problems/questions

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Swegen
I'm currently trying to use vinum to set up a thin client which will function as a mirroring fileserver. The idea is that the customer will enable the mirror using a web-interface. But, of course, I'm having problems. The main one is that for some reason vinum says that one of the two plexes is

Re: Vinum problems/questions

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Swegen
[ Stuff deleted ] Thanks for the pointer - the setupstate keyword did the trick. And my apologies for not RTFM :) *goes off with burning cheeks* If you're still interested in the panic output I'll try and find some time in the near future to try and get hold of it. Cheers Dave