vinum setup

[Chuck Robey]

Sven Willenberger wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:44 +0000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
>>I just asked this on -questions, but I think I shouldn't have, it's a 
>>amd64 question ... I am having a miserable time trying to get vinum 
>>working on m y dual opteron system, does anyone know, does vinum work on 
>>  amd64?  I can't even include "device vinum" in the config file ...
>>
> 
> 
> afaik, all the vinum has been ported to gvinum ...
> 
> /boot/loader.conf
> geom_vinum_load="YES"           # Concatenated/mirror/raid driver
> 
> nothing is needed in the kernel/conf file 
> 
> I have not tried gvinum with amd64 but on the i386 systems there are a
> couple of gotchas I found. After creating the array I find it necessarey
> to gvinum saveconfig or it will not be recognized on reboot. Also some
> of the commands do not work yet. If you are not using gvinum instead of
> vinum, I would start there and see how it goes ... 
> 
> Sven
> 

Sven, if seems like 90% of the gvinum commands don't work ... they just 
yield "unknown command" which isn't helpful.  Three questions would help 
me, so I'll ask them.

1) how do I erase the existing screwed up config?  Reconfig is naturally 
one of the commands that isn't recognized.

2) for the subdisk command, the "length" parameter, I can't tell if this 
means the entire size of the subdisk, or is it possibly got something to 
do with the size of the mirroring bites?

3) I can't seem to attach the subdisks to the volume or plex, so the 
volume/plex size remains 0.  Again, "attach" isn't recognized).  The 
only way I have done things so far is to put stuff into the config file, 
and use "create" to read that.  How do I attach a subdisk to a plex or 
volume?

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