Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:08:13 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Steve Peterson <stevep-hv@zpfe.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum / FreeBSD 6.1 / stale subdisks Message-ID: <20060818095225.X32882@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060817113801.0309ca10@localhost> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20060817113801.0309ca10@localhost>
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Hello! On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Steve Peterson wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on i386 with a stock kernel, and am trying to > build a 4 disk RAID5 array using vinum. The issue is that, once the system > is rebooted after initially creating the array, the subdisks come up as > stale. > > 1 volume: > V vol1 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 585 GB > > 1 plex: > P vol1.p0 R5 State: down Subdisks: 4 Size: 585 GB > > 4 subdisks: > S vol1.p0.s0 State: stale D: drive01 Size: 195 GB > S vol1.p0.s1 State: stale D: drive02 Size: 195 GB > S vol1.p0.s2 State: stale D: drive03 Size: 195 GB > S vol1.p0.s3 State: stale D: drive04 Size: 195 GB > gvinum -> quit Try to issue 'start' command against your volume: gvinum start vol1 It seems that gvinum requires this action for newly-created volumes (luckily only once). If so, this fact should be stressed in both gvinum(8) and the Handbook. Also, the Handbook says that it covers the knowlege about 5.5 and 6.1 versions, so remnants of non-GEOM vinum(4) (which is defunct and unavailable at least in 6.x) should be removed for the sake of clarity. I'm not sure whether BUGS section in gvinum(8) should refer to the missing functionality of defunct vinum(4). Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE
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