From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 03:54:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 53C7516A4CE; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 03:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sstar.com (sr.sstar.com [209.205.176.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B659143D45; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 03:54:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johns@sstar.com) Received: from [209.205.179.3] (account johns HELO JohnS) by sstar.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.3) with ESMTP id 8511240; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:54:35 -0500 From: "John Souvestre" To: "'Greg 'groggy' Lehey'" Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:54:35 -0500 Organization: Southern Star Message-ID: <007801c4ab58$32231c10$6401a8c0@JohnS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <20041005231649.GB1350@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:54:37 -0000 Hello. I apologize for the mistakes and omissions in my original posting. I've included additional information in this message. I'm running Vinum on a Free BSD 4.9 system with 3 hard drives. It's = been operational for about 5 years. The first drive is a small one and I = boot from it. The second and third drive are mirrored, using Vinum, and contain = most of the system's data (1 volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 subdisk per plex). The operating system and Vinum are stock, no modifications. The Vinum = config has not been modified in years. The system locked up on me this morning. When I rebooted there was a = problem with the Vinum mirrored drives. When I did a "list" from Vinum both = subdisks were "stale" and both plexes were "faulty". After playing around a while, I didn't know what to do, so I stupidly = tried something which probably made things worse. I did a "start" on one of = the plexes. It took a few minutes and then came up along with the subdisk = on it. But I'm afraid that it seems to be empty. When I boot now I get a "bad super block: magic number wrong" error, = along with "unexpected soft update inconsistency", "/dev/vinum/mirror: cannot = figure out file system partition". Vinum now lists the drives as "up", the volume as "up", the plexes as = "up" and "faulty", the subdisks as "up" and "stale". I would love to post a copy = of the Vinum "list" but I don't know of any way to copy it from the console = to here. Unfortunately, the /var/log directory is on the Vinum drive. So I am = unable to access it. Bottom line: I'm guessing that I blew away the first plex. Is there a = way to tell? Is there any way to get the second plex up and running, and to = restore the first plex from it? Thanks, John John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com -----Original Message----- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:grog@FreeBSD.org]=20 Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 6:17 PM To: John Souvestre Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum Help Needed (was: Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail) On Tuesday, 5 October 2004 at 7:47:24 -0500, John Souvestre wrote: > In-Reply-To: <416291F4.5040005@grokking.org> Please don't reply to unrelated threads. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. > I'm running Vinum on a 4.9 system with 3 drives. The first drive is > a small one and I boot from it. The second and third drive are > mirrored, using Vinum, and contain most of the system's data (1 > volume, 1 plex per drive, 1 subdisk per plex). > > The system locked up on me this morning. When I rebooted there was > a problem with the Vinum mirrored drives. When I did a "list" from > Vinum both subdisks were "stale" and both plexes were "faulty". > > ... > I'm guessing that I blew away the first plex. I can't guess what you did. > Is there any way to get the second plex up and running, and to > restore the first plex from it? Maybe. Please read http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html, retrace your steps and see if you can work out what you did wrong. If not, please supply the information asked for there, and maybe somebody will be able to help you. 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.