On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: > 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.
As someone who has long been a newbie, this sort of trivial pointer can be a life-saver. If you think like a programmer and see your OS as a program this sort of thing comes naturally, but lots of people don't. -Nick
