Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:37:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack Message-ID: <20010403093755.J25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpn19za1iy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:12:37PM %2B0200 References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <xzpn19za1iy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Monday, 2 April 2001 at 15:12:37 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> 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. Indeed, that's exactly the reason vinum(8) wipes out the directories in the first place. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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