From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 16:14:12 2003 Return-Path: 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 776CB37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CCF43FA3 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@soith.com) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A783E0051; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:14:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.132 ([10.202.2.132] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:14:11 -0400 Received: by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 533DB39096; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:14:08 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Aaron Wohl" To: "Hari Bhaskaran" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:14:08 -0600 X-Epoch: 1061075651 X-Sasl-enc: rphwghbVbiQQxoRIzSrzKA References: <20030816225114.GA6528@poecilotheria.netmails.net> In-Reply-To: <20030816225114.GA6528@poecilotheria.netmails.net> Message-Id: <20030816231408.533DB39096@www.fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: vinum config info stays intact during reinstall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:14:12 -0000 It doesnt use swap. It uses an area at the front of each vinum partition to list the config. Thats so you can take all the disks out of the machine and put them back in in any old oder and it works. On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:51:14 -0500, "Hari Bhaskaran" said: > Hi, > > I reinstalled one of my machines that had vinum running > (wiped & installed 5.1) and vinum was able to pickup the > drives/plexes etc right after I started vinum. Can I rely > on this feature? or should I use resetconfig & create > again? > > If vinum stores its info somewhere hidden in the swap, I > would have expected it to disappear after a reinstall > ( I didn't re-create slices or partitions, left them as > they are during the re-install). > > this is not really a problem - I am just trying to figure > out if vinum is pointing to an area that may get claimed > by swap later. I wouldn't want it to fail later on. > > Any help is appreciated. > > -- > Hari Bhaskaran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"