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Date:      Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:05:53 -0500
From:      "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
To:        "'Steve Bertrand'" <steve@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem
Message-ID:  <9DCBDCBB6388493FA7B2A4262E3E6E6A@msdi.local>
In-Reply-To: <495EA9C1.9090106@ibctech.ca>
References:  <F4E2B998045B4DBCA541E1D63C1D5A48@msdi.local> <495EA9C1.9090106@ibctech.ca>

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> Hi,
> 
> We had a power lost even though we have ups and generators (still
> investigating it) and when the machine rebooted one of the disk seems to
be
> failed :
> 
> The system complains about fsck repaired failed and that I must run it
> manually. It then boots in single user mode.
> 
> I entered gvinum and pressed "l" to see the status of the drive and I get
> this:
> My volume is UP
> My plex is shown as degraded
> I have 3 of the 4 subdisks shown as UP the 4th is shown as down.
> 
> Running "gvinum /dev/gvinum/RAID5" which is the name of my volume gets me
> this error:
> ** /dev/gvinum/RAID5
> Cannot find file system superblock
> Ioctl (GCINFO): Inapropriate ioctl for device
> fsck_ufs: /dev/gvinum/RAID5: can't read disk label
> 
> I tried "bsdlabel gvinum/RAID5" it tells me there is no valid label found
> 
> Does anyone knows what I can try to try to put back system online (at
least,
> so I can restore a backup on the disk)

I'm trying to find my vinum notes, but can't as of yet...

What does a:

# fsck -y /dev/gvinum/RAID5

...yield...anything?

Steve
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Same :(

But thanks all, I just did a newfs and currently restoring backups on it

Strange... Last time I will will gvinum, nothing as stable as a hardware
controller I guess :(






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