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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
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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
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