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.
I use vinum only for a data volume. I've seen /etc/vinum.conf mentioned in the handbook and other documentation but didn't understand its use. Was under the impression that recent vinum stored this information in the headers on the drives? That it found its drives by reading the volume types off BSD partitions.
Vinum in 5.2.1 often fails to remember its configuration on boot. But sometimes remembers on a cold boot. Would "vinum printconfig > /etc/vinum.conf" help?
When we execute vinum create it appears to work fine. The Devices are created in /dev/vinum/ and we can do a fsck -n -t ufs /dev/vinum/root which outputs no errors
The problem is when we reboot the devices in /dev/vinum are destroyed (
presume this is normal behaviour ) but they are not created on boot.
Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It might help; otherwise supply the information asked for there.
This is a problem I too have been having since 5.2.1, which was the first time I used vinum. Was only out of desperation, "Its broken, everything is lost, did something wrong, lets start over" that I re-ran "vinum stripe -v /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad6s1d" and then on a lark rather than newfs I ran fsck and found my /dev/vinum/vinum0 intact!
Sometimes vinum finds its configuration and boots. Then something changed and vinum behaved on 3 boots in a row. Had composed a lengthy email in answer to Greg's debugging checklist above. Was tricked into deleting it unsent. I think Beastie's last name might be Murphy.
Upgraded to 5.3-BETA and developed a new problem: vinum causes a kernel panic when started from the rc scripts.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71824
I suspect the issues are related because I always lose vinum configuration after a panic, but usually do not if I let the mount fail during boot (for lack of "vinum_start=YES" in /etc/rc.conf) and drop me into single user. Then "vinum start" and "exit" typed manually usually brings the system up. Drops me into single user again if vinum lost its configuration.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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