Geom Vinum backwards compatible?

[Lukas Ertl]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, 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.

Or you could just 'gvinum rm -r <drive>'.

> 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.

I don't recall if you sent me some info about this (of course. I'm 
drowning in email, so maybe I just overlooked it :-) ).

cheers,
le

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