Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:44:04 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virstor provider lost metadata. Rescue possible? Message-ID: <haumoj$fnh$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <469001.5449.qm@web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <469001.5449.qm@web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Frank Beckmann wrote: > Hello, > > one of my virstor providers lost its metadata. It looks like the sector got filled with random data. it is the second last filled sector in that virstor. Executing the command "gvirstor list", "gvirstor status" or "sysctl -a" resulted in a kernel panic. > > I handcrafted the destroyed sector assuming that all chunks of that provider were used and setting the flags to 0. Now the kernel doesn't panic anymore but I get the error message: > > GEOM_VIRSTOR[1]: virstor_check_and_run: Invalid entry 100542 in map for vs3 > GEOM_VIRSTOR[1]: virstor_check_and_run: provider_no: 25, n_components: 33 provider_chunk: 512, chunk_count 512 > > Provider 25 is the one which lost its metadata. > > The version of FreeBSD is: 7.2-RC1 > > Is it possible to revive that virstor to rescue some of its data? This is a serious problem, but as long as the first component of the virstor is alive and, as you say, only the metadata is damaged on component 25 (of 33), there is a chance. It looks like chunk_count is wrong for provider 25 - it holds the number of chunks (of default 4 MiB) on the device. You could calculate device_size/4194304 and write it in the chunk_count field of the reconstructed metadata - see if that helps (reference /sys/geom/virstor/g_virstor_md.h). You should make a backup of the first couple of chunks on the first components (the actual number depends on your virstor virtual size - 16 MiB should be enough for most) and the metadata of all other components before experimenting like this. Do you have any idea how the metadata got damaged? [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrS3kQACgkQldnAQVacBcizZgCgmxn0cEDlkW8063rIqCCj+bP6 ZDoAoOTCPrkb6HVHi5a7oZlFNedlMBay =mG1A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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