Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:51:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Vinum accept drives being renamed? Message-ID: <20010522095107.F30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 %2B0200 References: <20010521174017.I4856-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
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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
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