Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:31:23 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum rebuildparity, when? Message-ID: <20040825083123.GD17106@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when one needs to use this. I just recently found out, based on reading the RAIDframe documentation, that you're supposed to recheck/rebuild the parity after every disk crash. As I hadn't been doing that that would explain a lot of corrupted data in the past few weeks :/ The problem is that I can't find anything in the vinum docs about this command other than it's purpose. What I don't understand is the difference between reviving a disk in a RAID-5 plex, and rebuilding the parity. When I start a degraded disk it starts to revive -- which led me to believe that vinum was also recalculating the parity. Evidently it wasn't. I'm therefore now updating my procedures to always run 'checkparity -v <plex>' after a disk crash. Does anyone know if this is supposed to be this way? --Stijn -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in." -- Kim Alm, alt.sysadmin.recovery [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLE5bY3r/tLQmfWcRAlqYAJ0ftKQAZX8SsIcbAOBstCOzzukxOACdFCNg sATUwZt7ReS63XSEUULiF6w= =Sffj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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