[This is definitly not the right list for questions about software RAID. Try -geom instead.]
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:10:46PM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:14:32AM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:50:17AM +0300, Michael Lednev wrote: > > > throw gvinum away asap and use something different (gmirror/ata raid) > > > > > > seriously, you can try to delete all disks, volumes and plexes and then > > > recreate them with gvinum create - that worked for me > > > > I need the data. Obviously vinum is apparently useless for bare metal > > recovery, so I won't use it again. But I need the data from these drives. I'm fairly certain that doing re-running the identical set of gvinum create commands, if done with care will result in updating the meta-data while preserving the actual data assuming your talking about RAID 0, 1, or 0+1/1+0. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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