Vinum problem

Manfred Stienstra manfred at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 11:07:09 PDT 2005


On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:22:26 +0200, Manfred Stienstra wrote:

Ok, I figured out what the problem was.

> mount# vinum create -v vinum.volumes
>    1: drive a device /dev/ar0s1e
> ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Operation not supported by device

Operation not supported is issued because the kernel driver currently
doesn't know harddisk device names can start with 'ar'. This is easily
fixed with a small patch and rebuild.

>    2: drive b device /dev/ad0s1h
> ** 2 : Invalid argument

Apparently the partition that is to be added to the vinum volume need to
be of type 'vinum', this wasn't documented in the handbook.

Manfred





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