From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 17:44:16 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 C662C37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2E243F85 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:44:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 65A52526AA; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:14:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:14:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hari Bhaskaran Message-ID: <20030817004418.GE4494@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030816225114.GA6528@poecilotheria.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qFgkTsE6LiHkLPZw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030816225114.GA6528@poecilotheria.netmails.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 00:44:17 -0000 --qFgkTsE6LiHkLPZw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday, 16 August 2003 at 17:51:14 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > 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? You should be able to. Having backups does no harm, though. > or should I use resetconfig & create again? NO! To quote the man page: The resetconfig command completely obliterates the vinum confi= gu- ration on a system. Use this command only when you want to co= m- pletely delete the configuration. =46rom the tutorial at http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf: o Do not use the resetconfig command unless you genuinely don't want to see= any of your configuration again. There are other alternatives, such as rm, w= hich removes individual objects or groups of objects. > 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). It doesn't use swap. Again, from the tutorial: Configuring Vinum ----------------- Vinum maintains a configuration database that describes the objects known t= o an individual system. You create the configuration database from one or = more configuration files with the aid of the vinum utility program. Vinum store= s a copy of its configuration database on each Vinum drive. This databas= e is updated on each state change, so that a restart accurately restores the s= tate of each Vinum object. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --qFgkTsE6LiHkLPZw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Ps/iIubykFB6QiMRAs2oAJsFHYfIpKSf406heswln7XQQYG7IQCfQET0 lDpL4XDCTI5ROVhAI5nCFcs= =lh/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qFgkTsE6LiHkLPZw--