From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 17:18:37 2002 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 8DC2C37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3260543E7B for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9C63881291; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:48:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:48:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Stephen Hoover Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition Message-ID: <20020807001830.GV45553@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <023801c23cc0$61cbaa80$320210ac@dcicorp.com> <20020806010049.GP83171@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002f01c23cf3$ccc2c070$6602a8c0@swbell.net> <20020806025655.GH86771@wantadilla.lemis.com> <000f01c23d70$0209bfa0$6602a8c0@swbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000f01c23d70$0209bfa0$6602a8c0@swbell.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 6 August 2002 at 12:37:59 -0500, Stephen Hoover wrote: >>> Hmmm ok, I must be missing something here. Let's say I had /usr >>> and /home mirrored. Now the root partition (that is the boot partition) >>> is NOT mirrored and the first drive fails. (wiping out the FreeBSD >>> config altogether.) >> >> What do you mean by "FreeBSD config"? >> > By that I mean all of / is gone - so essentially all of the FreeBSD install > is gone - i.e. FreeBSD will not boot up and run upon failure of the first > drive. It sounds like (from previous emails) that some vinum info is on > the second drive and I should be able to regenerate the mirror set from > the second drive. (After I have reinstalled/repartitioned FreeBSD correctly > of course.) I will have to test this and see how it works exactly for > myself. No, you're still misunderstanding. *every* Vinum volume contains the Vinum configuration (which has nothing to do with a FreeBSD config). As long as you have at least one drive, you have the configuration, and it knows about the other disks, but (obviously) not where they are. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message