Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:44:07 +0000 From: tom <tomb@cgf.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum causes fatal double fault kernel panic Message-ID: <38FADCE7.F6BF4C8A@cgf.net> References: <38F0359F.E45937FC@cgf.net> <38F0C358.D120908@cgf.net> <20000409212525.B25406@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <38F16BF4.905477CE@cgf.net> <20000410152642.K19079@freebie.lemis.com> <38FAD5F9.2C8E5AD9@cgf.net>
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I found the nswers on the vinum home page at www.lemis.com, the only outstanding issue is that when I start vinum it only brings up one of the mirror subdisks. I then have to manually start the second drive in the pair. Tom tom wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for the advice. I finally found out what was wrong with my > implementation. > > The mistake I had made was to assume that the partition being used by vinum was > of a special type, hence I had not gone through newfs first to create a BSD > filesystem. > > Re-visiting /stand/sysinstall to create : > > /dev/da0s1e from /dev/da0 > /dev/da1s1e from /dev/da1 > > was the solution. This was the reason why the "disklable -e /dev/da0s1" would > not write the partition as typ vinum. Once I had run newfs (which created > da0s1e) I was able to change the type to "vinum" > > I'm fairly certain that the orginal problem was caused not starting with fresh > partitions. > > 1. I now have a new problem for which I require some advice. The following > output reports that Plex ex-mirror.p1 is faulty. The volume seems to be > operating correctly but I think that the mirroring function is not happening. > Is there a simple test I can do outside the vinum command set that will confirm > this problem? > > 2. Assuming there is some kind of a failure in the mirroring, and that I have > repaired the problem, how do I then get the information to re-mirror onto the > newly attached disk? > > Thanks again, > > Tom > > root@garlic#vinum list -v > 2 drives: > Drive a: Device /dev/da0s1e > Created on garlic.cgf.net at Sat Apr 15 20:13:10 2000 > Config last updated Sun Apr 16 01:08:24 2000 > Size: 4342915584 bytes (4141 MB) > Used: 4341240320 bytes (4140 MB) > Available: 1675264 bytes (1 MB) > State: up > Last error: none > Active requests: 0 > Maximum active: 5 > > Drive b: Device /dev/da1s1e > Created on garlic.cgf.net at Sat Apr 15 20:13:10 2000 > Config last updated Sun Apr 16 01:08:24 2000 > Size: 4342915584 bytes (4141 MB) > Used: 4341240320 bytes (4140 MB) > Available: 1675264 bytes (1 MB) > State: up > Last error: none > Active requests: 0 > Maximum active: 0 > > 1 volumes: > Volume mirror: Size: 4341104640 bytes (4140 MB) > State: up > Flags: open > 2 plexes > Read policy: round robin > > 2 plexes: > Plex mirror.p0: Size: 4341104640 bytes (4140 MB) > Subdisks: 1 > State: up > Organization: concat > Part of volume mirror > > Plex ex-mirror.p1: Size: 4341104640 bytes (4140 MB) > Subdisks: 1 > State: faulty > Organization: concat > Part of volume mirror > > 2 subdisks: > Subdisk mirror.p0.s0: > Size: 4341104640 bytes (4140 MB) > State: up > Plex mirror.p0 at offset 0 (0 B) > Drive a (/dev/da0s1e) at offset 135680 (132 kB) > > Subdisk mirror.p1.s0: > Size: 4341104640 bytes (4140 MB) > State: empty > Plex ex-mirror.p1 at offset 0 (0 B) > Drive b (/dev/da1s1e) at offset 135680 (132 kB) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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