From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 14:46:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C4116A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:46:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C554543FA3 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C5C2BD0F for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:46:51 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 39976511FA; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:16:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:16:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bob Collins Message-ID: <20031123224649.GK82843@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20031121092248.00ae5f60@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031119090506.00a9c6a8@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031119090506.00a9c6a8@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031121092248.00ae5f60@anything-inc.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20031123130031.00a9a020@anything-inc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031123130031.00a9a020@anything-inc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:46:56 -0000 --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single-line paragraphs. On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 13:03:47 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: > At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: >> On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: >>> vinum -> list >>> 4 drives: >>> D d State: up Device /dev/da1s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) >>> D c State: up Device /dev/da2s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) >>> D b State: up Device /dev/da3s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) >>> D a State: up Device /dev/da4s1h Avail: 0/8747 MB (0%) >>> >>> 1 volumes: >>> V raid State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 25 GB >>> >>> 1 plexes: >>> P raid.p0 R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB >>> >>> 4 subdisks: >>> S raid.p0.s0 State: empty PO: 0 B Size: 8747 MB >>> S raid.p0.s1 State: empty PO: 512 kB Size: 8747 MB >>> S raid.p0.s2 State: empty PO: 1024 kB Size: 8747 MB >>> S raid.p0.s3 State: empty PO: 1536 kB Size: 8747 MB >> >> This doesn't agree with what you say above. It also looks fine to >> me. > > My apologies, Greg. Quite right. I was messing with the system right > before the response about sa4 device nodes in /dev. Once I made the > da4 devices, then the disklabel worked. My mistake jumping the gun. > > One follow-up question if I may. > > I assume that the init process for a RAID5 takes quite some time, > no? This has been in the init stage for 3 days. The vinum daemon is > running as I can see it listed in ps -ax. This is the init state, which means it needs initializing. To initialize, issue the 'init' command. The state will change from 'init' to 'initializing', and the list command shows the progress of the initialization. This writes zeroes to the drives in parallel; expect it to take an hour or two on drives of this size. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/wTjZIubykFB6QiMRAtmdAJ4kLDHopFLhiMjto1+yxzGFpnWgrACdH9ek EWLHVCy0F46uDya/QyihGz4= =fur7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu--