thib@, That's a much better suggestion, also keeping in mind what jmc@ said. I will send a unified diff against the following file over the weekend.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/faq14.html But first I will tear down the mirror and document everything from scratch. Thanks for your feedback On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Thordur Bjornsson <t...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:35:54PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: >> 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. > > IMO, this kind of details are most suitable for a FAQ entry. > Maybe section 14.13 of the FAQ could use some love ?
