Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:58:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: faulty plex in vinum Message-ID: <20010606075821.J95379@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200106051901.f55J1Tp14194@lv.raad.tartu.ee>; from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:01:07PM %2B0200 References: <200106051901.f55J1Tp14194@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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On Tuesday, 5 June 2001 at 21:01:07 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to create a mirrored volume of two plexes using vinum > on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. For creating the volume I used the > following configfile: > > drive a device /dev/da0s2e > drive b device /dev/da1s2e > volume mirror1 > plex org concat > sd length 0b drive a > plex org concat > sd length 0b drive b > > This created the volume, but the plex on second volume was in > 'faulty' state. As I understand from vinum documentation, this is > supposed to happen because I need to 'vinum init' the subdisk in > this plex first. > > I did that with command 'vinum init mirror1.p1' and the > initialization process ran. The state of mirror1.p1.s0 is now > 'initialized', instead of 'empty' which it was right after creating > the objects. > > But the plex (mirror1.p1) is still in the 'faulty' state. When I > try to start it with command 'vinum start mirror1.p1', I get the > error message: > 'Can't start mirror1.p1.s0:Drive is down (5)' > > Does this mean that the hard disk which this plex resides on is > physically bad? It's indicating that the disk is inaccessible. Take a look at vinum(4) or http://www.vinumvm.org/how-to-debug.html and check out the data asked for there; possibly you'll find the problem. Otherwise send me the data and I'll take a look. > It's kind of hard to believe, because the vinum init command ran > without complaining, but you never know... Strange. That looks like a complaint to me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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
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