From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 00:06:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BDC106566B for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) Received: from spamfirewall.msdsky.com (spamfirewall.msdsky.com [64.18.66.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B708FC12 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1230941172-442200c50000-jLrpzn X-Barracuda-URL: http://spamfirewall.msdsky.com:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from mail02.msdihosting.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spamfirewall.msdsky.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 21D291313F2; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:06:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail02.msdihosting.net (mail02.msdihosting.net [64.18.67.9]) by spamfirewall.msdsky.com with ESMTP id TwCaOU20R5cTHZlO; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:06:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from dell390 ([70.83.251.43]) by mail02.msdihosting.net ((iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))) with ASMTP id QRI44553; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:14:22 -0500 From: "Ian Lord" To: "'Steve Bertrand'" References: <495EA9C1.9090106@ibctech.ca> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:05:53 -0500 Message-ID: <9DCBDCBB6388493FA7B2A4262E3E6E6A@msdi.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <495EA9C1.9090106@ibctech.ca> Thread-index: AcltNuvj/Ej4LcskTDuPZaLxHTZdOgAABDjQ X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Barracuda-Connect: mail02.msdihosting.net[64.18.67.9] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1230941173 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at msdsky.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:14 -0000 > 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 :(