Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:50:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Vinum disk replacement Message-ID: <20010316105023.B38666@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <EBEDLIEDDOIIJDGEKFFDGEMBCAAA.jshenry@net-noise.com>; from jshenry@net-noise.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:26:08PM -0600 References: <EBEDLIEDDOIIJDGEKFFDGEMBCAAA.jshenry@net-noise.com>
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On Wednesday, 14 March 2001 at 23:26:08 -0600, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Ok, does anyone know the proper way to replace a drive in a vinum RAID5 > array? I thought I did, but apparently not. > > I tried pulling the disk, replacing it with another disk having the same > SCSI ID, and creating a label for it - ala the vinum web page. (this is > after partitioning and changing the partition type with disklabel). When I > start vinum, it shows the RAID5 plex as degraded, and the affected disk as > down. So far, so good - the file system is slow, but fine. Next, I init the > plex, using "init mmvolc.p0.s2". Ok, so how do I rebuild parity from here? I > try starting the plex, and it comes up. No rebuilding parity, nothing. but > when I try to mount the file system, it is trashed. (presumably because one > of the disks is full of zeros!). > > I tried the step by step on the website, but it didn't work. Well, how about describing *how* it didn't work? 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 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
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