Help setting up Vinum mirror

From: Peter Clutton (peterclutton_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Hi, I have gone through the docs on this but am just missing a couple of points
    conceptually, and would be grateful for any help.

    Basically i have created two slices on two IDE drives and mounted them
    (through fdisk, label etc), and had that all up and running correctly.
    I then went into Vinum in interactive mode and (hopefully) created a
    mirror by typing
    mirror -d /dev/ad0s2d /dev/ad1s1d . It then gave me successful
    messages and gave the drive a name and said it's "up".

    I'm just wondering after this point, can i just type quit and it's up
    and running? I noticed on reboot the directories that were my mount
    point for these partitions say they are "not a directory" now. Do i
    need to go on and mount the mirror? Or did i make a mistake mounting
    these partitions before creating the mirror. How do i utilize it after
    issuing the mirror command.
    Many thanks in advance.
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