From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 8:25:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto1.daimler-benz.com (pluto1.daimler-benz.com [53.122.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C3C3152DC for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com) Received: by pluto1.daimler-benz.com; id RAA28680; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:23:57 +0200 Received: from unknown(53.113.75.10) by pluto1.daimler-benz.com via smap (V4.2) id xma028668; Mon, 20 Sep 99 17:23:53 +0200 Received: from c007fb66 (C007FB66.ut.str.daimler-benz.com [53.114.91.4]) by syssun11.rrz.debis.str.daimler-benz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA13533 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:24:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:25:23 +0200 Message-ID: From: Norbert Meissner To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: vinum: strange behaviour and other things Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:25:20 +0200 Organization: DaimlerChrysler X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-Mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, last weekend i've tried vinum on 3.3 release and some (from my point of view) strange things happened. 1. When I create a mirror volume a lot of error messages appeared about that one plex is faulty. Init the plexes doesn't help, but when I "start" the plexes they will go in the "up" state. Is it possible to include this command in the "create"-process? 2. I was not able to make a dump from a vinum volume (raid5, mirror and stripe tested). In the worst case (raid5) the whole system freezes! Only the reset button shows effect. In the other cases dump aborts with the message "bad magic number in sblock". I think that this is a problem with dump and the way it acesses the disk. Some people will surely tell me to use tar or cpio (btw., these work!) but I like dump and I find it much more flexible and safer than the others. 3. I'm missing documentation how to integrate a new disk in a vinum volume for the case that one disk has failures. I built a mirrored volume, then booted dos and deleted the partition info from one of the disks. My data was after this accessible, I could write new data on the remaining disk but I wasn't able to 'reintegrate' the disk with no partition info in the mirrored volume. I tried to do this with reconfiguring the partition and disklabel info. The next thing I saw is that the drive was gone out of the vinum configuration ( the line shows: "drive d1 device"). A create solved this. The volume was up, but the plex was flaky, a "start mirror.p0" showed no effect, "start mirror.p0.s0" states that it is busy. The same procedure on a raid5 volume shows that the volume is degraded, the data is still accessible but I didn' manage it to reintegrate the disk. At this point I see for the case of a disk failure the only solution to back up all data with tar, change the broken hd and restore. Or, maybe, I'm wrong.... N. Meissner +--------------------------------------------+ | _ _ __ __ _ | | | \| | | \/ |___(_)_______ _ ___ _ _ | | | .` |_ | |\/| / -_) (_-<_-< ' \/ -_) '_| | | |_|\_(_) |_| |_\___|_/__/__/_||_\___|_| | +--------------------------------------------+ Mercedes-Benz Stra?e 137 HPC G322 70546 Stuttgart Tel: +49-711-1754664 Fax: +49-711-178054664 norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message