Can't save Vinum config: No such file or directory

[ian j hart]

On Monday 16 February 2004 11:13 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 12:09:35 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:55:41PM +0100, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >> I have a very very far fetched idea.  Could you please try this:
> >>
> >> *) cd /usr/src/sbin/vinum
> >> *) vi commands.c
> >> *) locate the function vinum_read(), the first line says "int error;"
> >> *) initialize this var to zero, i.e. "int error = 0;"
> >> *) recompile vinum and tell if that changed anything
> >
> > OK, more info now that I am at the console of the machine again.
> >
> > During the weekend I discovered that I had saved a copy of my
> > previously working kernel somewhere in my homedirectory, so this
> > morning I first compiled a Feb 6 version of /sbin/vinum, and then
> > booted off the old kernel + vinum module, and executed the old
> > /sbin/vinum. No error message, but the only things listed in my
> > configuration were the drives (so no volumes/plexes/subdisks).
>
> Sorry, yes, I was going to reply to the previous message.  The
> dumpconfig output suggest that everything has been overwritten.  I
> fear this is the result of something like doing a saveconfig when
> there was nothing to save.
>
> > My current theory is that I somehow goofed up during the kernel
> > rebuild-a-thon last friday, and that I somewhere loaded the old
> > vinum module alongside the new kernel; and this bit me by
> > overwriting my configuration.
>
> A possibility, but unlikely.  I'd honestly guess finger trouble.
>
> > Although the data that was on the volume is not crucial, it would be
> > nice if there was a way to recover it; so if you don't want to
> > investigate further, can you tell me whether a vinum create would
> > restore my volumes,
>
> Yes, it should.  The data should be unchanged, so the file system
> should still be OK.
>
> > or is there simply no way that I can do so without obliterating the
> > data? If the latter, I'll just move on and recreate the plex using
> > ccd(4) (seeing as following vinum development is not one of my goals
> > right now).
>
> It occurs to me that we could easily prevent this kind of problem in
> the future by saving the Vinum configuration at boot time to
> /var/run/vinum.conf.boot or some such.  It would obviously make sense
> to keep the previous configuration as well.  This should be a pretty
> trivial modification to the startup scripts.

Haven't followed this too closely, but what if /var is a vinum volume?
/dev/vinum ?

>
> Greg
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