From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 12:47:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9828416A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:47:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sstar.com (sr.sstar.com [209.205.176.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4567243D41 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:47:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johns@sstar.com) Received: from [209.205.179.3] (account johns HELO JohnS) by sstar.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.3) with ESMTP id 8485611 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:47:25 -0500 From: "John Souvestre" To: Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:47:24 -0500 Organization: Southern Star Message-ID: <000001c4aad9$771163b0$6401a8c0@JohnS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <416291F4.5040005@grokking.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal Subject: Vinum Help Needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:47:27 -0000 Hi. I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is a = small one and I boot from it. The second and third drive are mirrored, using = Vinum, and contain most of the system's data (1 volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 = subdisk per plex). The system locked up on me this morning. When I rebooted there was a = problem with the Vinum mirrored drives. When I did a "list" from Vinum both = subdisks were "stale" and both plexes were "faulty". After playing around a while, I didn't know what to do, so I stupidly = tried something which probably made things worse. I did a "start" on one of = the plexes. It took a few minutes and then came up along with the subdisk = on it. But I'm afraid that it seems to be empty. When I boot now I get a "bad super block: magic number wrong" error, = along with "unexpected soft update inconsistency", "/dev/vinum/mirror: cannot = figure out file system partition". Vinum now lists the drives as "up", the volume as "up", the plexes as = "up" and "faulty", the subdisks as "up" and "stale". I'm guessing that I blew away the first plex. Is there any way to get = the second plex up and running, and to restore the first plex from it? Thanks! John John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com