Re: Help setting up Vinum mirror

From: FreeBSD usergroup (freebsd_at_amadeus.demon.nl)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:04:04 +0200
To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>

    On 29 sep 2005, at 13:28, Peter Clutton wrote:

    > 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.
    >

    Which FBSD release do you use?

    basically (FBSD < 5.3)
    for vinum you just have to type:
    vinum start
    after a reboot and it'll read the config from the disks and put the
    volume in /dev/vinum/
    from there you can mount it manually or add a line to /etc/fstab

    Arno

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