From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 21:22:41 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 668B937B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:22:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dci-corp.com (mail.dci-corp.com [65.88.13.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B90CF43E4A; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shooverfbn@442spot.com) Received: from cutlass442 (adsl-208-191-192-100.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [208.191.192.100]) by mail.dci-corp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DC5781FABE; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:22:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <004d01c23dca$0f6f0f60$6602a8c0@swbell.net> From: "Stephen Hoover" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: 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> <20020807001830.GV45553@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:22:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition > >> 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. Ok, I'm with ya - I just didn't make myself clear. When I stated "some vinum info is on the other drive" what I meant was the second drive's copy. Which if you have a copy on drive1 and a copy on drive 2, then drive 2's copy is some to me :) Sorry for that confusion - and thanks for clearing it all up for me! Even if I am still not making myself clear, I do believe I understand what you are saying. Stephen Hoover Dallas, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message