Vinum problem

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:07:09PM +0200, Manfred Stienstra wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, done that.

> >    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.

I know why I never read the handbook on that :) It's in the man page though.

Joerg