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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--dPW7zu3hTOhZvCDO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ot= her > > advice, it might just work for you :) >=20 > 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 w= ay 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 fut= ure (at least I can help to find bugs there unlike firmware bugs in a PCI controller card). Cheers, --Stijn --=20 "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 anoth= er 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 real= ly is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." -- Shigeru Miyamoto --dPW7zu3hTOhZvCDO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBtu0aY3r/tLQmfWcRAkkVAJ945gYeIsyZuKwkSzlwy3Q0VoNcXACfQVtK S5a7X1QsfmPsUlEN/meUmk0= =b2K4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dPW7zu3hTOhZvCDO--
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