Re: Stupid vinum questions
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a > >starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of > >"The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these > >questions, if I had understood it.) > > Maybe it would be a good start to say what you didn't understand in > the book. That way I can fix it for other people too. Please bear in mind some problems might be caused by the simple fact that English isn't my native language - you can't do too much about that. But generally I would say, it is a good idea to start with some simple working example, not with a list of all features and the stuff about stripes, volumes, plexes, organization, perfomance and what might be the differences to some kinds of RAID systems. Once the reader has got a general idea what can be done, it makes sense to discuss tuning and optimization. I don't think it would do any harm to proceed this way, because one needs to experiment and test things like these, before one starts using them in a production enviroment. Also it might be interesting for you to know, why I am asking about vinum: It is quite clear, that our school's samba server will sooner or later run out of disk space because of its growing profiles and home directories. We are frequently short of money, so I wouldn't like to buy new harddisks. But we know some people who are willing to donate old, though still good quality hardware. Regards, Uli. +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Stupid vinum questions
On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 17:57:56 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > Before I start experimenting, I would like to find out, if I am > on the right track. > I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. > 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or >is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Yes. > 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I need a seperate disk? You can't boot from a Vinum volume without a single-subdisk plex. That doesn't sound like what you want to build. > 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a >starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of >"The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these >questions, if I had understood it.) Maybe it would be a good start to say what you didn't understand in the book. That way I can fix it for other people too. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stupid vinum questions
At 17:57 10.12.2003 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Its like a partition/partitions that you newfs and mount like: mount /dev/vinum/bigdrive /lotofdisks 2) Can I boot from such a thing, or do I need a seperate disk? This depends which version of FreeBSD you are using. Older versions need some tricks, but there is a doc in /usr/share/doc/en/articles/vinum/ which descibes how to setup this. I am not sure, but 4.9R and/or 5.1R may be able to boot directly via vinum. man 4 vinum man 8 vinum http://www.vinumvm.org/ 3) Is there some fine manual around, that could be used as a starting point for reading? (I had a look at at my copy of "The Complete FreeBSD", but I guess I wouldn't ask these questions, if I had understood it.) See above, plus FreeBSD handbook Alexander ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
