From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 14:09:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F15A106566B for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infjb@yahoo.de) Received: from web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [87.248.110.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C77548FC08 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:09:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5935 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Oct 2009 13:43:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.de; s=s1024; t=1254577381; bh=HIDcUB0eDmv0BNy7jrpqwh7HFDKR9tvqB53oG9LF8Pw=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CzzFSdKl3OrKWO1QOpdMGSNbIk2ZskcfKlu1A28MGgmKNJGh74nwnyoIJdBbnEL+TOQdPmpIApYGHo0sQO5Lk84O8OiipSF2scKWIFsXH2o30V0LBKCRta4HWOLqfAId7wRcGVQIEZo/Eousxpp6U0fbUx1u4iLanTn5rb4mxj4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=38+PsFTRgjNqg8OE+8QnQBFIAJXINVmdLFi477zP+/TOecd0amaqdyMRbdIjjGuK5VLHlfmvZ1DesobE/tQRypBRDveraplHtOgP98lD/w20ddGOTN4yiwkTsaZ5r50JEduswhLrtVCrbteHkyDnG9dNDf6P5RMv8aNOP5sOFCI=; Message-ID: <469001.5449.qm@web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Y2bfwWUVM1mPR7NE1B573910QBXFNGCPvhMZtOS1n8r1nlqFpwiPBcNzXvq.cZVVn64Hb3cLVL.i76QygIJaj1r_qmvuD5793DtlQwKEqiqrBAqAm4lEZWcntVhfljR8X1smlLJCltwSYvTYo1zvouBatTRrl8W_Zgo2mRxbzx2pEJLeibyMPbh6Y51L0uBv5mxVZ3Q_FAgcXy8lpiM_kvlD8yf4LPKN1Imok9tBzjN4PAt.yDb7vyGfBql4iuxvtG.eRzUFa79IWi8mW48Eb.loyyQ83aWbfgjrP5A- Received: from [84.133.251.178] by web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:43:01 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 06:43:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Beckmann To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Virstor provider lost metadata. Rescue possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:09:44 -0000 Hello,=0A=0Aone of my virstor providers lost its metadata. It looks like th= e sector got filled with random data. it is the second last filled sector i= n that virstor. Executing the command "gvirstor list", "gvirstor status" or= "sysctl -a" resulted in a kernel panic.=0A=0AI handcrafted the destroyed s= ector assuming that all chunks of that provider were used and setting the f= lags to 0. Now the kernel doesn't panic anymore but I get the error message= :=0A=0AGEOM_VIRSTOR[1]: virstor_check_and_run: Invalid entry 100542 in map = for vs3=0AGEOM_VIRSTOR[1]: virstor_check_and_run: provider_no: 25, n_compon= ents: 33 provider_chunk: 512, chunk_count 512=0A=0AProvider 25 is the one w= hich lost its metadata.=0A=0AThe version of FreeBSD is: 7.2-RC1=0A=0AIs it = possible to revive that virstor to rescue some of its data?=0A=0AThanks for= any help.=0AFrank=0A=0A=0A