mismatching vinum configurations

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 2 18:53:44 PDT 2003


On Tuesday, 22 July 2003 at 11:12:31 +0200, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
> En/na Greg 'groggy' Lehey ha escrit:
>>> What's the less traumatic way to recover the data?
>> I've never tried this, but a thing you could do is:
>>
>> vinum -> setdaemon 4	     (turn off config updates)
>> vinum -> read /dev/ad0s1d   (or another drive with valid config)
>> vinum -> start
> This (followed by two reboots) has worked. The reason I didn't think it
> was ok is that I got a wired output from 'vinum list' (wrong number of
> drives, *invalid* still there), how is it suposed to be useful if is not
> a faithful report of vinum's state? Is there another way to get the same
> information?

No.  If you get that kind of message, something has gone wrong.  I've
already given details of how to track down this kind of problem.

If you want a reply from me, please include my name in the To: list.
Otherwise it can take a long time before I see it.

Greg
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