Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:52:55 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM? Message-ID: <20041208105255.GW39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041208100905.GA12684@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20041208054552.71553.qmail@web50708.mail.yahoo.com> <20041208100905.GA12684@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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--2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Scott, your procedure is what I have used, except for: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 6. Tell vinum to restart the failed subdisk: >=20 > # vinum start raid.p0.s0 >=20 > 7. Wait ages while the new disk is 'revived'. >=20 > I was quite impressed that the volume remained available with users > accessing it throughout this procedure :-) Yes I was too -- however I wasn't as impressed with the fact that I had par= ity errors afterwards. Have you run 'vinum checkparity' after these rebuilds? = In my case I suffered data corruption... AFAIK the only way to guarantee a consistent rebuild is to do it offline (at least in 4.x, haven't tested gvinum in 5.x yet). > To play it safe you might want to unmount the volume before starting. I *have* to. --Stijn --=20 "Coca-Cola is solely responsible for ensuring that people - too stupid to k= now not to tip half-ton machines on themselves - are safe. Forget parenting - t= he blame is entirely on the corporation for designing machines that look so innocent and yet are so deadly." -- http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=3Ddisplaystory;sid=3D2001/10/28/212418/42 --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBtt0HY3r/tLQmfWcRAuMRAJ9c0VXhhQgjKUZv2upH12Dt9urxRACffPqe 7Ct2o0I57ZOjepF/iyIowo8= =wRgp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn--
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