From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 18:33:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6AF37B6B6 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (root@mojave.lemis.com [192.109.197.162]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09416; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:03:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00775; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:45:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:45:06 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: Jon Rust , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need emergency help with vinum Message-ID: <20000324224506.D682@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <38DBF16F.72009BDF@nola.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message