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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:23:29 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mirrors and Stripes and Bad Disks, Oh My
Message-ID:  <h9sg64$56r$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090923165459.GA95498@crosswinds.net>
References:  <20090923165459.GA95498@crosswinds.net>

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Tony Holmes wrote:

> 1. Bring up the system in single user mode.
> 2. Destroy gm0 (with ad4 and ad8)
> 3. Recreate gm0 with ad4 only
> 4. Break ad10 out of the gm1 mirror pair - this way during recovery I=20
>    can build another copy of the stripe using ad8/ad10 if I need it.=20
>    I expect to hit bad sectors on the copy off. I also do expect lost
>    files/data if I have to go this route due to the time that ad8 was n=
ot
>    mirrored.
> Will this give me gm0 with a master ad4?

Yes.

> If I am able to recreate the stripe with identical parameters, will the=

> file system be visible.

Yes.

Don't touch anything else, though (like simultaneously updating to
another FreeBSD version, etc...)


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