From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 18:24:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354C237BA7B for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA18547; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:54:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:54:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tomaz Borstnar Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and 'soft errors' notices in /var/log/messages Message-ID: <20000702105412.H18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000701000218.0A04037B523@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000701213109.025c09c0@193.189.189.100> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000701213109.025c09c0@193.189.189.100> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't wrap print output, it makes it painful to read. On Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 21:38:58 -0100, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: That's an interesting time zone. Where are you located? > Hello! > > Using FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE as of later december 1999 with vinum for > mirroring data across two disks and was wondering about these messages: > > May 1 02:01:43 server /kernel: wd0s1e: soft error reading fsbn 1120668 of 1120667-1120668 (wd0s1 bn 3168668; cn 3143 tn 8 sn 20) (status 58 error 40) > > Jun 24 03:33:10 server /kernel: wd0s1e: soft error reading fsbn 1120680 of 1120679-1120680 (wd0s1 bn 3168680; cn 3143 tn 8 sn 32) (status 58 error 40) > > Jun 25 02:01:52 server /kernel: wd0s1e: soft error reading fsbn 1120680 of 1120679-1120680 (wd0s1 bn 3168680; cn 3143 tn 8 sn 32) (status 58 error 40) > > wd0s1e is vinum partition with all the data and wd2s1e is a mirror of it. > > How serious is this It's relatively serious. Vinum may protect you from it if you're running in a resilient configuration, but basically your drive has at least two flaky sectors. It could be telling you that it's dying. > and should I think about replacing the disk? Yes. > Would dd be enough to copy / to second disk so system can still run > - even with one disk. This would minimize downtime while replacing > the disk. If you're using Vinum, add a new plex on the new drive, start it, then remove the old drive. 0 down time. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message