My vinum scare

Lukas Ertl le at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 29 07:57:20 PST 2004


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:

>     # < log tr -d '\000-\011\200-\377'
>     IN VINOkanga.honeypot.netwd120a>P.pMg@[obme>MBR</name>
>         <geom id="0xc5e0da00">
>           <class ref="0xc08ebf20"/>
>           <name>da0</name>
>           <rank>2</rank>
>           <config>
>           </config>
> [...]

Heh, that's scary.  Somehow you managed to overwrite your on-disk
configuration with the output of sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml.  I've no
idea how this can happen.

> Once I stepped back, I remembered that I *always* use 'printconfig' to write
> a copy of my configuration to /etc/vinum.conf.  A quick 'vinum create'
> command had me back up and running with no ill effects.

That's good to hear.

regards,
le

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