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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:10:46 -0800
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gvinum in 6.0-rel -- how to attach plexes?
Message-ID:  <20060114011046.GB38113@svcolo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060112081432.GK84964@svcolo.com>
References:  <20060112063340.GA84964@svcolo.com> <op.s286l3dquxkvrk@asu-reaper.kkc.vibrators.ru> <20060112081432.GK84964@svcolo.com>

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:14:32AM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:50:17AM +0300, Michael Lednev wrote:
> > throw gvinum away asap and use something different (gmirror/ata raid)
> > 
> > seriously, you can try to delete all disks, volumes and plexes and then  
> > recreate them with gvinum create - that worked for me
>  
> I need the data.  Obviously vinum is apparently useless for bare metal
> recovery, so I won't use it again.  But I need the data from these drives.
 
Any answers on this?

If Vinum will not survive an upgrade and this data is impossible to
recover, then this REALLY MUST BE DOCUMENTED.

What a pathetically useless piece of shit.  Reliability my ass.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation



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