vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

2004-12-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
evice /dev/da1s1e drive ibmb device /dev/da2s1e drive ibmc device /dev/da3s1e volume raid5 setupstate plex org raid5 512k sd length 0m drive ibma sd length 0m drive ibmb sd length 0m drive ibmc This works ok. Then I run vinum init to initialize the drives. Trying to create a filesyst

Re: vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > You don't say whether you're using vinum or gvinum. I've never seen > this problem before, but if you're getting incorrect subdisk sizes, > try specifying them explicitly: > > sd length 35840952s drive ibma >

Re: vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 0:28:01 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 > box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI > drives to create a vinum volume. > > For some

vinum limits disk size to 255MB

2004-12-05 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi all, I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI drives to create a vinum volume. For some reason vinum believes the disks hold a mere 255MB. This is what vinum sets the subdisk length if I specif

Problems with VINUM recovery

2004-12-04 Thread orville weyrich
I was trying to test my ability to recover from a disk crash and managed to toast my system disk. Therefore, I do not have any relevant vinum history file or messages file. What happened is that I purposely blew away the drive named ahc0t15, and was trying to recover it. In error, I ran the

Re: GEOM vs. vinum in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-11-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 November 2004 at 15:10:47 +0800, Rene C. Mendoza wrote: > Hi! > > I'm supposed to mirror 2 similar disk drives using FreeBSD 5.3 The > thing is, I am confused which utility to use: vinum, gvinum, or geom. > As I understand it, geom is still fairly new but v

GEOM vs. vinum in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-11-23 Thread Rene C. Mendoza
Hi! I'm supposed to mirror 2 similar disk drives using FreeBSD 5.3 The thing is, I am confused which utility to use: vinum, gvinum, or geom. As I understand it, geom is still fairly new but very promising. Vinum, on the other hand, seems to be stable but not as extensible as geom. G

vinum + powerfailure -> one volume corrupt, others unaffected

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I just had a "power outtage" (= i accidentally hit the killswitch on the master power source...). One of the machines affected was one running FreeBSD with several vinum volumes[1]. When booting up afterwards, all but one of the vinum volumes recovered completely. By &quo

vinum status in daily log

2004-11-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Got a couple of server with vinum mirrored volumes. From time to time a disk or the other tends to get out of sync and is labeled as stale. If I miss the thing in the logs it might stay so for months... The ideal solution would be to write a script to include vinum status in the daily

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 14:36, Александр Деревянко 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

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-21 Thread Александр Деревянко
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 r

Re: vinum problems

2004-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
don't think you can boot off a vinum partition, because you have to > load vinum *after* the kernel is running. It usually loads early during > the run through /etc/rc as the system goes multiuser, before visiting > /etc/fstab with mount. Perhaps you have your root partition on another >

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 ker

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? Ho

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 p

/boot/loader.conf not fixing vinum issue

2004-11-15 Thread Mac Mason
I have two vinum volumes on my system; one, a mirrored volume, is /usr, and the other is mounted to /usr/storage. After updating to 5.3-RELEASE, boot into multi-user mode fails with a dangling vnode panic. According to the Errata: (31 Oct 2004, updated on 12 Nov 2004) The vinum(4) subsystem

Re: Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?

2004-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Artem Kazakov wrote: Tom Przybylinski wrote: Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly vinum'd stripey vol? now either dump /usr or tar it and then restore or untar consequently. If you choose tar do the following: tar -

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Text wrapped. On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 12:00:52 +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > appears it's not restricted to that: > > Let's m

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
ot of 'classic' vinum functionality is still missing and at least for me it still doesn't do the job the way I would find trustworthy. See below. That's absolutely true. While 5.3 is IMHO pretty stable, gvinum is quite new and therefore a bit less well tested than the rest of the s

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
ong > way to go. A lot of 'classic' vinum functionality is still missing and > at least for me it still doesn't do the job the way I would find > trustworthy. See below. That's absolutely true. While 5.3 is IMHO pretty stable, gvinum is quite new and therefore a bit les

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
Stijn Hoop wrote: Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it appears it's not restricted to that. Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use 'gvinum' instead. There is one caveat: the gvinum that shipped with 5.3-RELEASE contains a

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:32:58PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > > > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > > > appears it's not

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > > appears it's not restricted to that. > > Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It i

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > appears it's not restricted to that. Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use 'gvinum' instead. There is one ca

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Artem Kazakov wrote: > Kim Helenius wrote: > > > Now I can newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0, mount it, use it, etc. But when I do > > vinum stop, vinum start, vinum stop, and vinum start something amazing > > happens. Vinum l after this is as follows: >

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Artem Kazakov
Kim Helenius wrote: Now I can newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0, mount it, use it, etc. But when I do vinum stop, vinum start, vinum stop, and vinum start something amazing happens. Vinum l after this is as follows: 2 drives: D d2State: up /dev/ad5s1d A: 286181/286181 MB

Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

2004-11-11 Thread Kim Helenius
Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it appears it's not restricted to that: Let's make a fresh start with vinum resetconfig. Then vinum create kala.txt which contains: drive d1 device /dev/ad4s1d drive d2 device /dev/ad5s1d volume vinum0 plex org concat

Re: Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?

2004-11-11 Thread Artem Kazakov
Tom Przybylinski wrote: Salutations list, Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly vinum'd stripey vol? It's pretty easy. First, you have to create vinum volume, for example you name it "stripe" (read vinum docs to fin

Putting /usr on a vinum striped volume?

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Przybylinski
Salutations list, Would someone be so kind as to point me at a HOWTO where I can RTFM on moving my /usr to a freshly vinum'd stripey vol? TIA, Tom __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com __

A fundamental vinum raid5 problem

2004-11-10 Thread Kim Helenius
I have an absurd problem with vinum. I use the following command: vinum create blob.conf blob.conf: drive d1 device /dev/ad4s1d drive d2 device /dev/ad5s1d drive d3 device /dev/ad6s1d drive d4 device /dev/ad7s1d volume blob plex org raid5 433k sd length 0 drive d1 sd length 0 drive d2

Re: Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions

2004-11-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 8 November 2004 at 1:01:04 -0600, matt virus wrote: > Hi All - > > with some help from people on this list, i managed to get vinum and > raid5 all figured out! > > I had 4 * 160gb raid5 array running perfectly. When i ventured home > this past weekend, i found a

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-11-08 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 07 nov 2004, at 00:19, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array

Re: Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions

2004-11-08 Thread matt virus
42300 matt virus wrote: Hi All - with some help from people on this list, i managed to get vinum and raid5 all figured out! I had 4 * 160gb raid5 array running perfectly. When i ventured home this past weekend, i found another ATA controller and figured I'd change my raid5 array to have 8 dri

Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions

2004-11-07 Thread matt virus
Hi All - with some help from people on this list, i managed to get vinum and raid5 all figured out! I had 4 * 160gb raid5 array running perfectly. When i ventured home this past weekend, i found another ATA controller and figured I'd change my raid5 array to have 8 drives. I cleane

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-11-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: > > On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: > >> matt virus wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 >>> array

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-10-31 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: nobody ??? OK I'll give it a try. I have a vinum RAID 1 running though, but the way to get it tunning isn't very different. matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the device

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-10-30 Thread matt virus
nobody ??? matt virus wrote: Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are: ad4ad11 All drives have been fdisk'd and such, ad4s1d.ad11s1d The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel disklabel -e /dev/ad

Re: Vinum: df -h size and vinum list size not nearly the same

2004-10-28 Thread Mark Frasa
"h0444lp6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I do wonder a little about the difference in the size for my > /dev/vinum/usr reported by ¡§vinum list¡¨ and ¡§df ¡Vh¡¨. > I concatenated three 1303MB partitions. "vinum list" shows as expected a &

Vinum: df -h size and vinum list size not nearly the same

2004-10-28 Thread h0444lp6
Dear list, I do wonder a little about the difference in the size for my /dev/vinum/usr reported by “vinum list” and “df –h”. I concatenated three 1303MB partitions. "vinum list" shows as expected a size of 3909MB for volume usr, but df -h shows me only the size 1303MB. Why? TIA zhey

vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

2004-10-28 Thread matt virus
Hi all! I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 array with. the devices are: ad4ad11 All drives have been fdisk'd and such, ad4s1d.ad11s1d The first step of setting up vinum is changing the disklabel disklabel -e /dev/ad4 The disk label says it

SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-26 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
This is what happend... Still got the second disk... what to do now? Fsck -b32 -y /dev/vinum/mirror webserver1# mount /dev/vinum/mirror /a webserver1# ls .cshrc .login_conf .mailrc .rhosts .login .mail_aliases .profile.shrc webserver1# cd /a

Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Have a vinum setup... two disk... Vinum.conf drive d1 device /dev/ad2s1e drive d2 device /dev/ad3s1e volume mirror plex org concat sd length 19m drive d1 plex org concat sd length 19m drive d2 when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum

SV: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
: +45 8677 0615 -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Erik Udo Sendt: 23. oktober 2004 12:49 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... I dont know, i'm not that expert on disk recovering. Thomas Rasmussen wrote:

Re: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Udo
I dont know, i'm not that expert on disk recovering. Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Ok... but should i try the local disk thing first?.. How to check the disk it self? But with a vinum part... are you able to remove the second disk... disklabel the disk and then mount it? Med venlig hilsen/Best re

SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Ok... but should i try the local disk thing first?.. How to check the disk it self? But with a vinum part... are you able to remove the second disk... disklabel the disk and then mount it? Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Thomas Rasmussuen Network manager, NM Net ApS Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Udo
Dunno. Upgrade to 4.10? Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Well fsck_ufs is not in freebsd 4.8 What to do? On Friday 22 October 2004 15:23, Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Have a vinum setup... two disk... when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum/mirror it outputs.. BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH

SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Well fsck_ufs is not in freebsd 4.8 What to do? On Friday 22 October 2004 15:23, Thomas Rasmussen wrote: > Have a vinum setup... two disk... > when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum/mirror > > it outputs.. > > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST &g

SV: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Get this messages... webserver1# fsck /dev/ad2s1e ** /dev/ad2s1e BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG /dev/ad2s1e: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (vinum) Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Thomas Rasmussuen Network manager, NM Net ApS Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tlf./Phone: +45 8677 0606 Fax: +45 8677

SV: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
. oktober 2004 11:21 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! Try fsck -y /dev/ad0s1? first, i think that should fix it. Ofcourse you dont need to make it write anything on the disk, just see what fsck want's to do. Thomas Rasmussen wrote: >Do you know why

Re: SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Udo
e: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! I dont think CLEAR will remove any files, it would say something like: REMOVE? y/n If it needed to remove files. Anyway, run fsck -y first so that it does not write anything, and you'll see if it wants to remove anything. Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Because i

Re: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Udo
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Erik Udo Sendt: 23. oktober 2004 11:07 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! Why didn't you answer "yes" to fsck? I dont think it would have removed anything... Few keywords you might want to check: scan_ffs

SV: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Erik Udo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 23. oktober 2004 11:12 Til: Thomas Rasmussen Emne: Re: SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! I dont think CLEAR will remove any files, it would say something like: REMOVE? y/n If it needed to remove files. Anyway, run fsck -y first so

SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
0615 -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Erik Udo Sendt: 23. oktober 2004 11:07 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! Why didn't you answer "yes" to fsck? I dont think it would have removed anything.

Re: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Udo
Why didn't you answer "yes" to fsck? I dont think it would have removed anything... Few keywords you might want to check: scan_ffs fsck_ffs Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Have a vinum setup... two disk... Vinum.conf drive d1 device /dev/ad2s1e drive d2 device /dev/ad3s1e volume mirro

SV: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
0615 -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Erik Udo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 23. oktober 2004 11:03 Til: Thomas Rasmussen Emne: Re: Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP! Why didn't you answer "yes" to fsck? I dont think it would have removed anything... Few keywords you might wan

Vinum, and poweroutage... HELP!

2004-10-23 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Have a vinum setup... two disk... Vinum.conf drive d1 device /dev/ad2s1e drive d2 device /dev/ad3s1e volume mirror plex org concat sd length 19m drive d1 plex org concat sd length 19m drive d2 when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum

Re: Help! Vinum drive crashed

2004-10-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/20/2004 1:56 PM Henk wrote: Vinum reported one my disks in the volume has crashed. As mentioned in the thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/045942.html I did 2 things. *snip* ttyp2 0:21 #kneh# [/home/marc>vinum start Warning: defective object

Re: (g_)vinum]

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Mather
> > In /boot/loader.conf I set: > > > > vinum_load="YES" > > vinum.autostart="YES" > > > > This doest not work, even: > > > > gvinum_load="YES" > > gvinum.autostart="YES" > > > > When i boot in s

SV: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-22 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
16:23 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Vinum, and poweroutage... On Friday 22 October 2004 15:23, Thomas Rasmussen wrote: > Have a vinum setup... two disk... > when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum/mirror > > it outputs.. > > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE W

Re: Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-22 Thread Chris Howells
On Friday 22 October 2004 15:23, Thomas Rasmussen wrote: > Have a vinum setup... two disk... > when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum/mirror > > it outputs.. > > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST > ALTERNATE > CANNOT FIGURE OUT FILE SYSTEM P

Vinum, and poweroutage...

2004-10-22 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
Have a vinum setup... two disk... Vinum.conf drive d1 device /dev/ad2s1e drive d2 device /dev/ad3s1e volume mirror plex org concat sd length 19m drive d1 plex org concat sd length 19m drive d2 when I try to run fsck /dev/vinum

Re: (g_)vinum]

2004-10-22 Thread Mark Frasa
. I didn't realize > > how ready gvinum was for production until I edited my /etc/fstab a couple > > of weeks ago to replace /dev/vinum with /dev/gvinum and everything Just > > Worked (tm). Wish all of my software migrations were this easy. :) > >

[bsd@frasa.net: Re: (g_)vinum]

2004-10-22 Thread Mark Frasa
I edited my /etc/fstab a couple > of weeks ago to replace /dev/vinum with /dev/gvinum and everything Just > Worked (tm). Wish all of my software migrations were this easy. :) > > > You can't imagine how happy i am atm. Now i finally can move on. > > > > Thanks a

Re: Swap - Vinum - G_Vinum

2004-10-21 Thread jason
Mark Frasa wrote: Hello, I have found this link: http://www.freebsd.de/archive/de-bsd-questions/de-bsd-questions.200410/0112.html There is a statement in there: Ab -- wahrscheinlich so -- 5.5-RELEASE wird vinum komplett durch (ein formatkompatibles) geom-basiertes Vinum-Framework (g_vinum

Swap - Vinum - G_Vinum

2004-10-21 Thread Mark Frasa
Hello, I have found this link: http://www.freebsd.de/archive/de-bsd-questions/de-bsd-questions.200410/0112.html There is a statement in there: >Ab -- wahrscheinlich so -- 5.5-RELEASE wird vinum komplett durch >(ein formatkompatibles) geom-basiertes Vinum-Framework (g_vinum) ersetzt &g

Re: Help! Vinum drive crashed

2004-10-20 Thread Henk
> Vinum reported one my disks in the volume has crashed. As mentioned in > the thread > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/045942.html > I did 2 things. *snip* > ttyp2 0:21 #kneh# [/home/marc>vinum start > Warning: defective objects > > P

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

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

(g_)vinum

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Frasa
Hello, First i want to quote something: >Vinum is being rewritten; the new one is called gvinum or geom_vinum. > > It handles swap, and it should be in 5.3. > > Greg Here Greg tells me that Vinum should be in 5.3 Yesterday after 5.3-RC1 came trough, i downloaded the ISO and in

Vinum swap partition tutorial?

2004-10-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a 4.10 server which sometimes reboots itself, so I'd like it to create crash dumps for me to analize, but, after an upgrade, no swap partition is big enough to hold its entire RAM. So I tought I could join two of them with vinum... Any hint? Any tutorial? Any reason

Help! Vinum drive crashed

2004-10-13 Thread Marc Smits
Dear Vinum-know-it-all / Greg:-) Vinum reported one my disks in the volume has crashed. As mentioned in the thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/045942.html I did 2 things. 1. vinum -> setstate up BigDisk0.p0.s0 BigDisk0.p0 FreeBSD did not like that and deci

Re: vinum swap no longer working.

2004-10-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
ay belong on current,> I upgraded to 5.2 from 5.1 and my >>>>> kernel (GENERIC) now refuses to use /dev/vinum/swap as my swap >>>>> device.>> # swapon /dev/vinum/swap> swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: >>>>> Operation not supported by device> #

Re: vinum swap no longer working.

2004-10-11 Thread Mark Frasa
reeBSD 5.2.1, because 4.10 and even 5.1 did not > > reconized mij SATA controller, i CVS-upped and upgraded to 5.2.1-p11 > > RELEASE > > > > After that I configured Vinum to mirror (RAID 1) 2 80G Maxtor SATA > > disks. > > > > The error i am getting is: >

Re: vinum swap no longer working.

2004-10-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
ded to 5.2.1-p11 > RELEASE > > After that I configured Vinum to mirror (RAID 1) 2 80G Maxtor SATA > disks. > > The error i am getting is: > > swapon /dev/vinum/swap > swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not > supported by devi

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
c: > >drive ad5 device /dev/ad5s1e >drive ad6 device /dev/ad6s1e >volume raid0 >plex org striped 127k >sd length 0 drive ad5 >sd length 0 drive ad6 It's a *very* bad idea to name Vinum drives after their current location. You can take the (physical) dri

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Everlund
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this i

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi Greg and list! > > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? > One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and > makes the usual noises

VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-

RE: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail)

2004-10-05 Thread John Souvestre
Hello. I apologize for the mistakes and omissions in my original posting. I've included additional information in this message. I'm running Vinum on a Free BSD 4.9 system with 3 hard drives. It's been operational for about 5 years. The first drive is a small one and I boo

Re: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail)

2004-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 at 7:47:24 -0500, John Souvestre wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please don't reply to unrelated threads. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. > I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive

Vinum Help Needed

2004-10-05 Thread John Souvestre
Hi. I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is a small one and I boot from it. The second and third drive are mirrored, using Vinum, and contain most of the system's data (1 volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 subdisk per plex). The system locked up on me this mornin

vinum and securelevel

2004-10-04 Thread Dean
Hello questions, Please include me in replies. I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE built late last month and can't get vinum to list it's configuration. Could my securelevel have something to do with it? Thanks. 0 tfz /root # vinum printconfig Can't open /dev/vinum/control: Ope

Re: vinum

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Schuller
> drive a device /dev/ad0 > drive b device /dev/ad3 ... > ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Operation not supported by device ... > illuminating. Is this a common problem? How do I fix it? I've made > sure that the disks in question have been labeled using disklabel -e &

vinum

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Dormer
Hello all, I'm setting up a mirrored volume with vinum, using the following config file: drive a device /dev/ad0 drive b device /dev/ad3 volume storage plex org concat sd length 78167m drive a plex org concat sd length 78167m drive b but when I run the config, I get this: vinum ->

Re: vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 8:24:44 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the >>> description file that you use with vinum create become

Re: vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-21 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the description file that you use with vinum create becomes /etc/vinum.conf Well, you need to call it that. The name isn't critical, but it's a good choice.

Re: vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 9:13:23 +1200, Bruce Harding wrote: > We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum > on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have > followed Greg Lehey's instructions from > > http://www.d

vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-20 Thread Bruce Harding
We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have followed Greg Lehey's instructions from http://www.daemonnews.org/22/vinum.html and the handbook on vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS

Re: Vinum Concat Data Recovery

2004-09-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 September 2004 at 13:13:22 +0200, Thomas Spreng wrote: > Hi, > > I have made concat drive using 3 hard disks using vimum vm. Some weeks > ago one of those 3 disks crashed completely (bios can't even detect it > anymore). My question now is: is there any chance to recover the data >

Vinum Concat Data Recovery

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, I have made concat drive using 3 hard disks using vimum vm. Some weeks ago one of those 3 disks crashed completely (bios can't even detect it anymore). My question now is: is there any chance to recover the data that resides on the 2 (working) remaining disks? I cant provide more info than th

Re: vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-09-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
hear that it is not correct. > > While not having heard back yet, I had to rebuild another subdisk, > > but I decided to do it off-line this time. Turns out the parity was > > rebuilt ok. > > Yes, this is what I recommended. OK. > > Might there be a bug in the

Re: extending concat vinum array

2004-09-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 September 2004 at 18:12:39 +0200, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: > Hi > > I have the following concatenated array: > > 3 drives: > D vinumdrive0 State: up /dev/ad2A: 0/152627 MB (0%) > D vinumdrive1 State: up /dev/ad3A: 0/152627 MB (0%) > D vi

Re: vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-09-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 September 2004 at 12:17:01 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Hi, > > back with another episode in this continuing saga: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:26:57PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: >> Witness this (after yet another fake disk crash): >> >>>>> &

Re: [Vinum-devel] loader.conf variables for vinum

2004-09-06 Thread Joerg Wunsch
e vinum.drives setting). Vinum.autostart just tells > 5.x to run the discovery code. Addition: the code to parse the name of the root device in 4.x is too narrow-minded to parse a string like /dev/vinum/root, it can only parse [/dev/]DDU[sS]P-style root device names (DD - driver name, U - unit num

extending concat vinum array

2004-09-02 Thread Feczak Szabolcs
. Segmentation fault (core dumped) fsck says BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE /dev/vinum/vol: CANNOT FIGURE OUT FILE SYSTEM PARTITION any ideas to solve it ? -- _(_)_ (_. o_)F3CZ0 (_,) http://feczo.nmi.rulez.org

Re: [Vinum-devel] loader.conf variables for vinum

2004-09-02 Thread Bob Van Valzazh
ob On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:34, FreeBSD Daemon wrote: > Dear list, > > I am using 4.10R and want to set up a mirrored / using vinum. > > I am confused by the note in section 17.9.1 of the handbook stating that > the following paragraphs only apply to 5.x and refer to 17

Re: vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-09-02 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, back with another episode in this continuing saga: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:26:57PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Witness this (after yet another fake disk crash): > > %%% > > vinum -> ls -v local.p0.s0 > Subdisk local.p0.s0: > Size: 314

loader.conf variables for vinum

2004-09-02 Thread FreeBSD Daemon
Dear list, I am using 4.10R and want to set up a mirrored / using vinum. I am confused by the note in section 17.9.1 of the handbook stating that the following paragraphs only apply to 5.x and refer to 17.9.5 for 4.x configuration. Do I have to set just vinum_load, vinum.drives, and

vinum root issue on 5.3-Beta2

2004-08-31 Thread Chad Ziccardi
I'm working on setting up a mirrored root filesystem as explained in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html I've gotten it to boot then noticed something broken about it on my setup. More info on my setup is at the bottom of this message. If it bo

vinum revive does not rebuild parity (was vinum rebuildparity, when?)

2004-08-29 Thread Stijn Hoop
and the parity on the other disks. > > > > Yes, but the parity should be recalculated at the same time, right? > > Yes. Witness this (after yet another fake disk crash): %%% vinum -> ls -v local.p0.s0 Subdisk local.p0.s0: Size: 31457129472 bytes (2 MB

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >