From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 22:18:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96B437BCC1 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA32244; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:18:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <38E04E9C.142CD814@nasby.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:18:04 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Glenn Johnson , Jon Rust , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need emergency help with vinum References: <38DBF16F.72009BDF@nola.srrc.usda.gov> <20000324224506.D682@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg- I'm not sure what the tricks are that you're refering to, but a page on how to properly do a recovery would be most appreciated. I just suffered from having drive partition info on one of my drives wiped out after/during/before a kernel panic and I eventually ended up with all the raid volumes on the system being corrupt. I wouldn't be surprised if the corruption was due to my efforts to restore the raid volumes. Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message