On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 19:03:27 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I've got a question or two about vinum, and how to work it.
>
> I'm trying to upgrade the storage on my home computer, and while I was
> transitioning my old disks out, I only managed to get one of the new
> ones online to copy data onto it.
Did you forget the 'setupstate' keyword?
> Now I want to mirror that volume onto a 2nd plex. Attaching the
> plex to the volume and doing a vinum start seemed to start a
> mirroring process, but it seemed to be reading from both plexes in
> round robin to do the mirror!
How do you determine that?
> This obviously wasn't what I had hoped for.
It certainly doesn't make sense?
> The second question concerns the flag fields. Is there any way to
> change flags on the fly? e.g. change the volume from being round
> robin to prefer plex?
That's one thing I haven't done yet. It's trivial, but I haven't
thought of a syntax for the command. Suggestions?
> Lastly, what does vinum mean?
Wine (in Latin). If you search, you may find an amusing pun on a
Latin saying.
Greg
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