Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:01:30 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM? Message-ID: <20041208120130.GY39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041208115445.GB12830@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20041208054552.71553.qmail@web50708.mail.yahoo.com> <20041208100905.GA12684@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20041208105255.GW39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20041208113013.GA12830@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20041208113427.GX39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20041208115445.GB12830@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:54:45AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:34:27PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > I'm just saying that in my case it didn't work out well. As with any other > > advice, it might just work for you :) > > Sure, I'm definitely not disagreeing with anything you're saying here. I'm > inclined to think I have just been lucky the few times I've had to do this > in the past, and to maximise my good luck I should take the same > precautions that you do in the future :-) Oops, I think I didn't exactly get my point across, which was 'it may very well be that your way works for you, which is great'. I certainly was not trying to sound condescending (I think is the right word?). > I haven't played with gvinum yet either, but I'll probably be looking at a > hardware solution (FreeBSD-supported hardware RAID or network-attached > storage appliances) when the time comes to replace these servers. Vinum > has been excellent, but I always find it really traumatic to deal with, > mostly because I have to touch it every 6 months at most. There's always a > frantic hour re-reading the documentation, followed by a lot of "I really, > really, hope this works" moments before hitting Enter :-( Yeah, I certainly recognize those moments. Having gotten through a lot of trouble in the last few months did do some good in that regard, I know my way around vinum a bit more. But unfortunately I have heard some horror stories with hardware RAID as well, so I'm staying with vinum in the forseeable future (at least I can help to find bugs there unlike firmware bugs in a PCI controller card). Cheers, --Stijn -- "What if everything you see is more than what you see -- the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." -- Shigeru Miyamoto [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBtu0aY3r/tLQmfWcRAkkVAJ945gYeIsyZuKwkSzlwy3Q0VoNcXACfQVtK S5a7X1QsfmPsUlEN/meUmk0= =b2K4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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