From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 23:14:47 2003 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 3778637B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4A243F85 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E623651A62; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:44:41 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:44:41 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: protius@bobdbob.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pilot error with vinum Message-ID: <20030318071441.GT84879@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200303180547.h2I5lxke000350@teryx.bobdbob.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303180547.h2I5lxke000350@teryx.bobdbob.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 18 March 2003 at 0:47:59 -0500, Protius wrote: > > I have made a really pathetic error with a vinum array, and I was hoping > someone could bail me out... > > The array in question is 6 disks, running vinum raid-5, under FreeBSD > 4.5-Release (it wasn't broke, I didn't want to touch it...). It has > been running for nearly a year, with no hiccups. > > Just recently, a disk failed. I saw it in vinum's ls list, and attempted > to remove it, to attach a new one. Unfortunately I missed, and removed > one of the functional subdisks. Ouch. > With two subdisks missing, the array imediately Went Away. Do you still have the disk? If so, and *if* you know what the subdisk was called, recreate it. You'll also have to know where it fits in the array. Probably the best thing to do is to do a dumpconfig and send it to me. I'll then send you a new config file. > I figured out what I had done, and havn't done anything more than run > various list commands, and a couple of attempts to start the failed > subdisk (but its obsolete anyway). The disk I removed is still visible > on ld (as a disk, but 99% available), but its off the list of subdisks. > > How can I put it back on the list of subdisks, reattach it to the plex > from which it came, and get my array back? Roughly. It's complicated enough that I'd rather see what has happened so far. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dsdhIubykFB6QiMRAtnNAJsECAodFR/gh8SxO2rmJtF6B0A1+wCgoHRj xMuuOk8xQxqRrFfGPDOAkCI= =JrK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tRcR9GoWqjXrt11v-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message