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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:50:23 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Vinum disk replacement
Message-ID:  <20010316105023.B38666@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <EBEDLIEDDOIIJDGEKFFDGEMBCAAA.jshenry@net-noise.com>; from jshenry@net-noise.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:26:08PM -0600
References:  <EBEDLIEDDOIIJDGEKFFDGEMBCAAA.jshenry@net-noise.com>

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On Wednesday, 14 March 2001 at 23:26:08 -0600, J. Seth Henry wrote:
> Ok, does anyone know the proper way to replace a drive in a vinum RAID5
> array? I thought I did, but apparently not.
>
> I tried pulling the disk, replacing it with another disk having the same
> SCSI ID, and creating a label for it - ala the vinum web page. (this is
> after partitioning and changing the partition type with disklabel). When I
> start vinum, it shows the RAID5 plex as degraded, and the affected disk as
> down. So far, so good - the file system is slow, but fine. Next, I init the
> plex, using "init mmvolc.p0.s2". Ok, so how do I rebuild parity from here? I
> try starting the plex, and it comes up. No rebuilding parity, nothing. but
> when I try to mount the file system, it is trashed. (presumably because one
> of the disks is full of zeros!).
>
> I tried the step by step on the website, but it didn't work. 

Well, how about describing *how* it didn't work?

Greg
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