From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 16:54:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DFA37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7916E43F85 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:54:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A726B51A68; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:24:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:24:43 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: John Fox Message-ID: <20030402005443.GY34617@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030402001638.GD307@mind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5FDiZl1vRbLRjwwc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030402001638.GD307@mind.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about vinum and contents of /dev/vinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 00:54:47 -0000 --5FDiZl1vRbLRjwwc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 1 April 2003 at 16:16:38 -0800, John Fox wrote: > I am copying files over the network -- from a failing drive in production > box to a new drive in my workstation, with the intent of swapping these > drives. > > I have been testing transfers with tar, and ran into some problems when > it (tar) hit the '/dev/vinum' hierarchy: > > tar: dev/vinum/plex/virtdisk_plex: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/sd/drive0: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/sd/drive1: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/vol/virtdisk.plex/virtdisk_plex: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/Control: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/control: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/vinum/controld: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: dev/sa0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped > > My question is this: When vinum starts up and can't find some of these > device files, will it crash and burn, or will it simply create them? In general, never copy device nodes. In this particular case it would be particularly bad, but Vinum always recreates them when it starts, even if they were there first (they could be wrong). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --5FDiZl1vRbLRjwwc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ijTTIubykFB6QiMRAtIOAJ44NFgJlXuP+ln2VZ5ZfkWgq/hsewCeI1Zz KihAZ5QxMeQmHBzkbTt0vJ0= =xfyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5FDiZl1vRbLRjwwc--