From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 10:53:03 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 DB47616A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:53:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929E243D5A for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:53:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 40) id 0207D13B811; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:53:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB83B13BB5F; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:52:55 +0100 (CET) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iB8AqtM4057116; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:52:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:52:55 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Scott Mitchell Message-ID: <20041208105255.GW39558@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Scott Mitchell , orville weyrich , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041208054552.71553.qmail@web50708.mail.yahoo.com> <20041208100905.GA12684@tuatara.fishballoon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2EnvhqpWJq810sZn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041208100905.GA12684@tuatara.fishballoon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on kweetal.tue.nl X-Spam-DCC: : kweetal.tue.nl 1074; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=6.3 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Level: cc: orville weyrich cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM? 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, 08 Dec 2004 10:53:04 -0000 --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Scott, your procedure is what I have used, except for: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:09:05AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 6. Tell vinum to restart the failed subdisk: >=20 > # vinum start raid.p0.s0 >=20 > 7. Wait ages while the new disk is 'revived'. >=20 > I was quite impressed that the volume remained available with users > accessing it throughout this procedure :-) Yes I was too -- however I wasn't as impressed with the fact that I had par= ity errors afterwards. Have you run 'vinum checkparity' after these rebuilds? = In my case I suffered data corruption... AFAIK the only way to guarantee a consistent rebuild is to do it offline (at least in 4.x, haven't tested gvinum in 5.x yet). > To play it safe you might want to unmount the volume before starting. I *have* to. --Stijn --=20 "Coca-Cola is solely responsible for ensuring that people - too stupid to k= now not to tip half-ton machines on themselves - are safe. Forget parenting - t= he blame is entirely on the corporation for designing machines that look so innocent and yet are so deadly." -- http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=3Ddisplaystory;sid=3D2001/10/28/212418/42 --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBtt0HY3r/tLQmfWcRAuMRAJ9c0VXhhQgjKUZv2upH12Dt9urxRACffPqe 7Ct2o0I57ZOjepF/iyIowo8= =wRgp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2EnvhqpWJq810sZn--