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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:45:06 -0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
Cc:        Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need emergency help with vinum
Message-ID:  <20000324224506.D682@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <38DBF16F.72009BDF@nola.srrc.usda.gov>; from gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:51:27PM -0600
References:  <Pine.A32.3.95.1000324141940.19030A-100000@nola.srrc.usda.gov> <p04310168b50197a74cad@[209.239.239.22]> <38DBF16F.72009BDF@nola.srrc.usda.gov>

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On Friday, 24 March 2000 at 16:51:27 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> Jon Rust wrote:
>>
>> At 2:20 PM -0600 3/24/00, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>>> Vinum reports that a subdisk is in the crashed state. Is there any way to
>>> recover or am I screwed?
>>>
>>
>> More information would be a Good Thing. What type of volume is it?
>> Mirrored? Striped? Concat? RAID-5?
>
> Sorry I did not provide more information. I was kind of in panic mode
> when I sent the message. It is (was) a concatenated plex of 3 EIDE
> drives. For what it's worth it was the third subdisk in the plex that
> failed.
>
>> If it's mirrored or RAID-5, you'll be fine prolly. From a previous
>> post (STFA is a good thing):
>
> I guess this means I am out of luck.

There are tricks.  I suppose I should document them, but they somewhat
contradict the idea of being able to rely on the system.  If the
problem still persists, please let me know and I'll tell you what to
do.  In any case, you might like to read
http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html.

Greg
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