From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 17:21:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF17437B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 17:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A5CB36ACBC; Tue, 22 May 2001 09:51:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:51:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jan Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Vinum accept drives being renamed? Message-ID: <20010522095107.F30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010521174017.I4856-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010521174017.I4856-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>; from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:45:46PM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 17:45:46 +0200, Jan Conrad wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering whether vinum can accomodate for drives being renamed. > > Say I have 3 drives da0 da1 da2 and vinum is on da1 and da2. > What happens if I pull out da0 (say replace it by an ide drive) > Now da1 will be da0 and da2 will be da1. > > Is this a problem? No. You'll obviously have to reboot (that's when the name change takes effect), and in the process Vinum will rescan the disks. Each Vinum partition has a label which identifies which drive it is; this is what 'vinum dumpconfig' prints out. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message