On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:24:07PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just configured a mirror using softraid, the manpage was extremely
> helpful. I just copy pasted the relevant commands. To a complete
> newbie, it was missing a few more lines. I just added those and
> sending the diff. I hope a variation of this is accepted to make the
> "how to create mirror using softraid" is complete. Googling brings a
> lot of RAIDFrame etc, there is very little out there on a pure data
> mirror.
>
> Thanks,
> amit
>
>
> Index: softraid.4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/softraid.4,v
> retrieving revision 1.27
> diff softraid.4
> 147a148,159
> > .Pp
> > To use the freshly created mirror
> > .Bd -literal -offset indent
> > # mkdir /datamirror
> > # mount /dev/sd0a /datamirror
> > # chown normal_openbsd_user /datamirror
> > .Ed
> > .Pp
> > Adding the following line to /etc/fstab will make it useful after every boot
> > .Bd -literal -offset indent
> > /dev/sd0a /datamirror ffs rw,softdep,nodev,nosuid 1 2
> > .Pp
(as an aside, please send unified diffs (-u) in future)
there is a line near the end of EXAMPLES:
The RAID volume is now ready to be used as a normal disk device.
for me, the instructions you've added come under the umbrella of
using the raid partition as a normal disk partition. so i'd argue
that it's outside the remit of this page.
maybe other developers think otherwise though.
jmc
