From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Apr 2 6:12:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3587237B71D for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 06:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA51937; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:12:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Apr 2001 15:12:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: Kirk Strauser's message of "01 Apr 2001 17:22:20 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kirk Strauser writes: > I had last done this on February 11, 2001. Yesterday (2001-03-31), I > decided to make world again. During the reboot-into-single-user process, I > watched in abject horror as vinum started, tried to read its configuration, > didn't like what it found, and TOTALLY WIPED everything in /dev/vinum > (including subdirectories). There is no critical information in /dev/vinum. The information there can easily be recreated by vinum(8) from the configuration information stored on the disks themselves. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message