From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 16:43:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB1916A41F for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:43:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062E443D45 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k0EGho2V020677; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:43:50 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k0EGhoao020676; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:43:50 -0800 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:43:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Jo Rhett Message-ID: <20060114164349.GA19513@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20060112063340.GA84964@svcolo.com> <20060112081432.GK84964@svcolo.com> <20060114011046.GB38113@svcolo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060114011046.GB38113@svcolo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum in 6.0-rel -- how to attach plexes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:43:51 -0000 --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [This is definitly not the right list for questions about software RAID. Try -geom instead.] On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:10:46PM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: > 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) > > >=20 > > > seriously, you can try to delete all disks, volumes and plexes and th= en =20 > > > recreate them with gvinum create - that worked for me > > =20 > > 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 driv= es. I'm fairly certain that doing re-running the identical set of gvinum create commands, if done with care will result in updating the meta-data while preserving the actual data assuming your talking about RAID 0, 1, or 0+1/1+0. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDySpEXY6L6fI4GtQRAqBJAKCRAXa0Ns68JOJObZXfRqU0RTftgQCgl1Fa VUzCGv7letVaSMbc45ISg20= =qp0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--