Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:13:25 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@fajita.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error. Message-ID: <20040316111325.GB742@adelaide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org> References: <20040316020000.GA846@lewiz.org>
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On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 2:00:00 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I had a failed disk in my RAID-0 Vinum array. This was a physical disk > problem and in an attempt to recover as much data as possible I dd'ed it > to another disk (dd if=ad3 of=ad1 bs=8192 conv=noerror). This may or may not work, depending on details you haven't reported. > This has mostly gone fine (bar the I/O errors that were to be > expected) and I can actually start vinum and mount the RAID-0 array > with no trouble (Vinum reports no errors I can see). I suppose that depends on where you look :-) Read on. > I don't really know how I can test the integrity of files from the > replaced disk... A good start would be to read the documentation at http://www.vinumvm.org/. > I attempted to fsck the volume before I mounted it but I first had to > restore the superblock for the volume (tunefs -A /dev/vinum/data), which > worked fine. However (and this is my real problem), fsck_ufs > /dev/vinum/data gives the following message: > > ** /dev/vinum/data > cannot alloc 4316869296 bytes for inphead > > ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** Possibly there are log messages that go with this message. It indicates to me that there's something seriously wrong in some data structure, and that fsck is asking for a ridiculous amount of memory as a result. 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
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