Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:32:43 -0400 From: "Rex Roof" <rexroof@gmail.com> To: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror/stripe freezing under FreeBSD 5.5 Message-ID: <6afb69aa0609291032r74af8943jbecaeb6d69fb94d3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060929172837.40200.qmail@web30311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <6afb69aa0609291006i1bd4be9eu7811930a58e2aeba@mail.gmail.com> <20060929172837.40200.qmail@web30311.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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This is scary, I don't have an easy spot to back this data up. Also, if this array used to work great in a different machine, I'm not sure how this might repair the problem. On 9/29/06, R. B. Riddick <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- Rex Roof <rexroof@gmail.com> wrote: > > can I do that without corrupting my data? > > how would that be done? > > > Hmm... > > I am not sure... > > I would suggest the following: > > 1. Make a good nice old-fashioned backup to tape or so. :-) And verify it! ;-) > > 2. Split ur big-geom-device into two > 2.1 by removing disks from the mirrors and > 2.2 by creating a new big-geom-device (with big stripe and slice) > > 3. copy data from old big-geom-device to the new one. > > 4. destroy the _old_ big-geom-device > > 5. insert the free disks to ur new big-geom-device > > Increasing slice size of a gmirror-device should be possible via configure... > But changing the stripe size of a gstripe-device is not so easy... :) > > -Arne > > > --- > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
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