From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Apr 1 17:52:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DD337B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 115206ACB7; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:22:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:22:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack Message-ID: <20010402102211.B25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402082816.J77617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot>; from kirk@strauser.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:33:41PM -0500 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-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 1 April 2001 at 19:33:41 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2001-04-01T22:58:16Z, Greg Lehey 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