Geom Vinum backwards compatible?

[Ryan Hunt]

But will this destroy the data on the 'drives'? I want to be able to 
resize the disks on the fly.. (using growfs once I've added an 
additional plex)

On 13 Oct 2004, at 08:12, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:01:52AM +0100, Ryan Hunt wrote:
>> 	I'm trying to get vinum (geom) happening in BETA7, but I'm finding
>> that 'resetconfig' it not available yet (among other commands)..
>
> As a workaround, you maybe you can obliterate the previous 
> configuration by
> dd'ing /dev/zero to the first 257 sectors of the relevant vinum 
> 'drives'.  I'd
> do this without geom_vinum loaded though.
>
> No idea as to your other answers; I'm still not sure whether I'm 
> experiencing
> data corruption on a concat volume due to geom_vinum but I don't have 
> the time
> to debug this. My home machine has a complete gvinum mirror setup (no 
> concat)
> and I've had absolutely 0 problems with it. It's running 5.3-BETA5.
>
> --Stijn
>
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