Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:31:41 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My vinum scare Message-ID: <20040329210141.GC15929@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <87k713ek7r.fsf@strauser.com> References: <87k713ek7r.fsf@strauser.com>
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On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 9:39:20 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Yesterday, I updated my system from a 5.1-CURRENT build on 2004-01-29 to
> recent source. All of my filesystems, except for root and swap, are on
> vinum volumes for flexibility in management. After the 'installkernel'
> step, I rebooted into single-user to make installworld and run mergemaster,
> and this completed successfully. Then, I rebooted to bring the system back
> online.
>
> That's when I discovered that vinum had totally lost all of its
> configuration information, except for the name of the single drive ("wd120")
> that I use. Following the instructions at
> http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html, I got:
>
> # < log tr -d '\000-\011\200-\377'
> IN VINOkanga.honeypot.netwd120a>P.pMg@[obme>MBR</name>
> <geom id="0xc5e0da00">
> <class ref="0xc08ebf20"/>
This looks nothing like the label. Is this really exactly what you
got? Were you using Vinum or the experimental GEOM implementation?
> I have no idea what happened, but I ask that you trust me when I say
> that I hadn't touched vinum at all during the system update.
You could still look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html
and check on the information there.
Greg
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