Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:15:43 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: tony <tony@tntpro.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: faulty vinum plex, need help please Message-ID: <20020121181543.A3901@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200201212311.KAA01827@tungsten.austclear.com.au>; from ahl@austclear.com.au on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:11:11AM %2B1100 References: <doug@polands.org> <200201212311.KAA01827@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:11:11AM +1100, Tony Landells wrote: > doug@polands.org said: > > So when the subdisks are revived, then the plex will automatically > > come up, or must I start it? Could you speculate as to why this > > happened? I'd like to understand what went wrong and how to avoid/fix > > this in the future. > > The plex will automatically come up when all of its subdisks are up. > > This happened because it's supposed to happen. This is in the vinum > documentation, placed very logically, several pages too late to help > someone who is trying to wing it from the documentation (hark to the > voice of experience!) ;-) In particular, look at the "Gotchas" and > the "start" command. > > Read the documentation all the way through, and try to understand the > examples, and it will all make much more sense. > Should probably do that before a disk fails :p On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:57:17AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > So dataraid plex 1 appears to be faulty. Is this a mis-configuration > > on my part? > > No. > > > Is it hardware failure? > > No. > > > The read/write performance of the vinum volume does not appear to > > have degraded, have I just lost the mirroring property? > > I suspect it was never mirrored. > > > I'll be thankful for any advice on how to diagnose and fix this situation. > > The man page (vinum (8)) is your friend: > > I'm surprised nobody else came up with this. Since you have now > newfs'd your volume, you did the right thing by using 'vinum start', > though you could have simply done a 'vinum start dataraid.p1', which > probably would also have been faster. > Thanks to all for your help. Afer an hour of disk churning, the second plex came on line. I guess the moral of the story is sophisticated tools in the hands of novices is a dangerous thing :) -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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