Hello!
I have been configuring Vinum on FreeBSD 6.2 stable following this doc:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html#=
VINUM-SYNOPSIS
It has not been so hard as people say but I've wasted quite a bit of my tim=
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because of lack of some important informations in the handbook. To improve=
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your doc I would suggest you to do some tweaking by adding what I included=
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below.
=2D To create root partition illusion i had to add driveoffset parameter in=
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vinum conf. Without it I couldn't use filesystem created=20
under /dev/gvinum/myroot for booting because the filesystem had been seen a=
s=20
corrupted one.
=2D In object naming section should be provided a note reffering to slices,=
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particular:
"If you use slices then a vinum's config file should be reffering to ad0s1 =
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ad0"
=2D I've had some problems with mounting vinum volume during the booting.
May 9 14:52:28 cel433 kernel: GEOM_VINUM: subdisk nsm.p0.s1 state change:=
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down=20
=2D> stale
May 9 14:52:28 cel433 kernel: GEOM_VINUM: subdisk nsm.p0.s0 state change:=
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down=20
=2D> stale
May 9 14:52:37 cel433 kernel: g_vfs_done():gvinum/nsm[READ(offset=3D65536,=
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length
=3D8192)]error =3D 6
May 9 14:42:56 cel433 kernel: g_vfs_done():gvinum/nsm[READ(offset=3D65536,=
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length
=3D8192)]error =3D 6
After some googling I've found that for newly created volumes I should type=
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"vinum create volumename". It has worked out for me but prior to this comma=
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I had to reboot.=20
If those informations were included in the handbook It would be much easier=
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for me to configure vinum. It's better to have all basic informations in o=
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place instead of be forced to googling for them.=20
I hope this will help you out to create more complex documentation. :)
Best regards!
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Orest Onuszko=20
IT Administrator=20
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