Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:22:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack Message-ID: <20010402102211.B25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot>; from kirk@strauser.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:33:41PM -0500 References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402082816.J77617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot>
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On Sunday, 1 April 2001 at 19:33:41 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2001-04-01T22:58:16Z, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > >>> 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). > >> This is a feature, not a bug. Don't confuse a device node (in /dev) >> with the device itself. > > I didn't suppose that it was a bug - just a nerve-wrecking response to a set > of input data. > >>> After regaining consciousness, I realized that I had a live tape >>> backup online, so I restored /dev/vinum, > >> You shouldn't have done that. > > What would've been the proper response? I don't have a log of the errors > (/var/log/vinum_history has nothing, and neither does /var/log/messages), > but they were along the lines of: > > Could not create /dev/vinum/plex - directory already exists > > or something very similar. The end result was an empty /dev/vinum. 'vinum > list' gave a huge dump of invalid volumes, plexes, subdrives, and > drives. It would have been useful to see this dump. 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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