Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:38:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Ludo Koren <lk@tempest.sk> To: grog@freebsd.org Cc: l.ertl@univie.ac.at Subject: Re: growfs on vinum volume Message-ID: <200403291638.i2TGcK7h097955@lk106.tempest.sk> In-Reply-To: <20040329080752.GU52771@wantadilla.lemis.com> (grog@freebsd.org)
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>> >> vinum -> l ... >> D d1 State: up /dev/da1s1e A: 0/15452 MB (0%) >> D rd1 State: up /dev/da1s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%) > You shouldn't have more than one drive per spindle. It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was not possible to mirror root partition (at least I found just document 'Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable Servers' by R. A. Van Valzah in 2001 or 2002 on www.freebsd.org) >> ... >> growfs /dev/vinum/mirror > You've missed out some information. May I assume that you had > a valid file system on the 15 GB volume mirror before you > started this? Yes >> It finished with the following error: >> >> growfs: bad inode number 1 to ginode >> >> I have searched the archives, but did not find any >> answer. Please, could you point to me what I did wrong? > You trusted growfs on 5.2.1 :-) I did it successfully before on 5.x (I don't remember exactly, about 6 months ago) but not on vinum volume... > growfs is suffering from lack of love, and presumably you had a > UFS 2 file system on the drive. It's only recently been fixed > for that, in 5-CURRENT. There is UFS 1 file system on the drive. > What you do now depends on the state of the file system. > Hopefully you still have the original contents. In this case, Yes, I have original contents. The volume size is 15GB just as before. > you could get hold of the version from -CURRENT, which should > compile with no problems, and try again. It wouldn't do any > harm to take down one of the plexes so that you can recover if > something goes wrong. Thank you very much for your advice. I'll try it on weekend, because there is no possible downtime during the working days. > Greg lk
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