Date: 02 Apr 2001 08:28:38 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack Message-ID: <878zljmnw9.fsf@pooh.honeypot> In-Reply-To: <xzpn19za1iy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <xzpn19za1iy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 2001-04-02T13:12:37Z, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes: > 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. I wasn't too sure at the time which information was canonical - the copy in /dev/vinum, or the on-disk copy - so I wanted to be darn sure not to lose more than I needed to. Your point that it is easily recreated is true, given that vinum works at all in a particular situation. Mine didn't. I know why it didn't, and I managed to work through it without loss, but it certainly got my attention at the time. BTW, my note was much more a warning to others to pay attention to these things than a complaint. Vinum is a complicated thing, and you have to be willing to rise to the occasion if you want to use it, and I'm comfortable with that. -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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