Re: vinum, fsck generates errors when Plex 1 is up

2004-08-29 Thread Peter A. Giessel
> * What problems are you having? fsck reports dozens and dozens of errors and the filesystem as corrupt whenever I start Plex 1. > * Which version of FreeBSD are you running? 5.2.1-RELEASE > * Have you made any changes to the system sources, including Vinum? No, I recompiled the

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-27 Thread Christian Laursen
Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: > > > When reviving a disk the data on that disk is calculated from the data and the > > parity on the other disks. > > Yes, but the parity should be recalculated at the same time, right?

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-27 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, thanks for your response, I didn't notice it at first because it only went to the mailing list :) On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:08:53PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote: > Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' com

Re: vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-25 Thread Christian Laursen
Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the > times when one needs to use this. I run rebuildparity if checkparity finds any errors after unclean shutdowns. > The problem is that I can't find an

vinum rebuildparity, when?

2004-08-25 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I was wondering about the vinum 'rebuildparity' command, especially the times when one needs to use this. I just recently found out, based on reading the RAIDframe documentation, that you're supposed to recheck/rebuild the parity after every disk crash. As I hadn't been d

Re: vinum, fsck generates errors when Plex 1 is up

2004-08-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
ive eight(p1.s2) > drive nine (p1.s3) > drive ten (p1.s4) > drive twelve (p1.s5) That's impossible. You can't put plexes on drives; they've got to be on subdisks, which you don't mention. This is why I ask (http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-d

vinum, fsck generates errors when Plex 1 is up

2004-08-22 Thread Peter A. Giessel
, so i went to replace it, created a configfile: drive twelve device /dev/ad11s1h # vinum create configfile # vinum start array.p1.s5 when p1.s5 finished reviving, I got all kinds of fsck errors such as "INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT", "EXCESSIVE BAD BLOCKS", etc. Fortunately, I had

Re: Vinum in -CURRENT (was: Vinum panic on boot)

2004-08-17 Thread Charles Ulrich
Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: > The current status of Vinum in -CURRENT is that it is being > rewritten. The introduction of the GEOM layer has badly broken Vinum, > and it has been decided better to rewrite it than to fix it. It'll be > a while before it's smooth a

Vinum in -CURRENT (was: Vinum panic on boot)

2004-08-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 8 July 2004 at 2:21:30 -0500, Mario Doria wrote: > Hi, > > Another vinum question. I have a machine running 5-CURRENT sources from > yesterday (yes I know the dangers of running CURRENT and I did read the > mailing list archives). Well, the issue was discussed ther

Re: How to move a disk that's part of a vinum mirror?

2004-08-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 August 2004 at 2:45:12 -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > On a machine running RELENG_4_8, I have two parititions, ad0s1d and > ad4s1e, configured as a mirror using vinum. I need to move one of the > drives to another controller, resulting in ad4 changing to ad2. I read >

Re: Vinum clarification

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I am wanting to set up a vinum configuration so that I have a spanned > volume containing a large partition on one drive, and a second entire > disk. I am a little confused whether I need to build a striped or > concat volume. > > The usable size on one disk is different from

Vinum clarification

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
I am wanting to set up a vinum configuration so that I have a spanned volume containing a large partition on one drive, and a second entire disk. I am a little confused whether I need to build a striped or concat volume. The usable size on one disk is different from the usable size on the other

How to move a disk that's part of a vinum mirror?

2004-08-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On a machine running RELENG_4_8, I have two parititions, ad0s1d and ad4s1e, configured as a mirror using vinum. I need to move one of the drives to another controller, resulting in ad4 changing to ad2. I read through the vinum man page, saw the move command, then read elsewhere that vinum&#

vinum does not remember config across boots

2004-08-09 Thread David Kelly
Mentioned in the past week or so that I have two 160G SATA drives with one slice each, each slice has 1G reserved (not currently used) for swap, the remainder s1d is for vinum. The two are striped with "vinum stripe -v /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad6s1d". At boot vinum often does not reme

Re: Moving vinum drives to a new system?

2004-08-05 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 5, 2004, at 12:54 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: # vinum list 2 drives: D vinumdrive1 State: up /dev/ad6s1d A: 156041/156041 MB (100%) D vinumdrive0 State: up /dev/ad4s1d A: 156041/156041 MB (100%) 0 volumes: 0 plexes: 0 subdisks: # How early in the boot is this? Have you done '

Re: Moving vinum drives to a new system?

2004-08-05 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 5, 2004, at 9:28 AM, David Kelly wrote: Am tempted to rerun "stripe -v /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad6s1d" again but would rather not lose the data on the volume. Update: did exactly that described above and my old data survived! -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving vinum drives to a new system?

2004-08-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:40:10PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > Am not so much as moving the vinum drives so much as replacing the > system drive FreeBSD 5.2.1 was installed upon. The same system which > created my striped vinum volume. > > System drive was a parallel ATA 40G

Moving vinum drives to a new system?

2004-08-04 Thread David Kelly
Am not so much as moving the vinum drives so much as replacing the system drive FreeBSD 5.2.1 was installed upon. The same system which created my striped vinum volume. System drive was a parallel ATA 40G. Two SATA 160G drives were used to create a striped vinum volume with the simple vinum

vinum create drive problem, can't add second disk to config

2004-07-27 Thread Gary Mulder
All, I have two 160GB disks I want to mirror (ad0 and ad2). I loaded a fresh install FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on the boot disk, and are following the mirroring instructions at: http://devel.reinikainen.net/docs/how-to/Vinum/ I have successfully added one half of the mirror and now are

Re: Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> drive e device /dev/da5s1e > drive f device /dev/da6s1e > volume raid10 > plex org striped 512k > sd length 0 drive a > sd length 0 drive b > sd length 0 drive c > plex org striped 512k > sd length 0 drive d > sd length 0 drive e > sd length 0 d

Re: Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 24 July 2004 at 17:03:41 +1000, Chris Keladis wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is > a good balance between performance/redundancy? > > I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The &

Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Keladis
Hi all, I was wondering what Vinum configurations others are using and what is a good balance between performance/redundancy? I've gone with RAID10 (2 striped plexes with 3 subdisks each. The plexes are mirrored to each other). vinum.conf: drive a device /dev/da1s1e drive b device /dev/d

Vinum questions

2004-07-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm playing a bit with vinum. I'm trying to get to work RAID-0 (Striping) on 5.2.1-Release. The two hdds I'm using are slightly different (38162MB and 39079MB) If I set vinum to use the same size for both it works nicely, but if I

Re: serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?-solved?

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Willenberger
Steve Shorter wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:40:01AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I see no drives. Ideas? I have concluded that this is the result of somekind of vinum/hardware incompatibility. The problem in question occured during the upgrade to faster disks, sp

Re: serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?-solved?

2004-07-13 Thread Steve Shorter
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:40:01AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I see no drives. > > > Ideas? > I have concluded that this is the result of somekind of vinum/hardware incompatibility. The problem in question occured during the upgrade to faster dis

Re: serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Shorter
> I see no drives. Not sure what you mean see below > > > Ideas? > > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html I recreated a simpler situation with just 2 mirrored drives. After reboot the vinum lv -r -v reports (*missing *) drives. But before re

serious vinum bug in 4-10 RELEASE?

2004-07-11 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have 4 identical disks, labels etc are also identical. It looks like vinum after reboot does not recognize drives properly, as it did immedialtely after initial configuration. One drive/subdisk in each plex isn't recognized, and the other one is duplicated,

Re: Vinum panic on boot

2004-07-08 Thread Mario Doria
start. vinum: loaded panic: unmount: dangling vnode syncing disks, buffers remaining... 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 220 Giving up on 183 buffers uptime: 18s And that's it Mario ___ [EMAIL

Vinum panic on boot

2004-07-08 Thread Mario Doria
Hi, Another vinum question. I have a machine running 5-CURRENT sources from yesterday (yes I know the dangers of running CURRENT and I did read the mailing list archives). I think I found a bug, if I add start_vinum="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, at boot I get a panic with a message sayi

Re: Vinum shows 0% space used

2004-07-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 8 July 2004 at 1:57:35 -0500, Mario Doria wrote: > Hi, > > Im running 5-CURRENT on a machine with vinum enabled, its works perfectly > but the command "vinum ld" gives only this output: > > vinum -> ld > D tecdigital2 State: up /dev

Vinum shows 0% space used

2004-07-07 Thread Mario Doria
Hi, Im running 5-CURRENT on a machine with vinum enabled, its works perfectly but the command "vinum ld" gives only this output: vinum -> ld D tecdigital2 State: up /dev/da3s1e A: 0/35016 MB (0%) D tecdigital1 State: up /dev/da2s1e A: 0/35

Re: LVM ? (not vinum!)

2004-07-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 04), Stephan van Beerschoten said: > Is there an implementation of an LVM in FreeBSD ? Vinum is not > sufficient. I am looking for a true LVM where creating and resizing > volumes is a must. Something like Solaris Disksuite with > softpartitioning is something

Re: LVM ? (not vinum!)

2004-07-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 4 July 2004 at 21:06:20 +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: > Is there an implementation of an LVM in FreeBSD ? > Vinum is not sufficient. I am looking for a true LVM where creating and > resizing volumes is a must. And what's missing in Vinum? > Something like

LVM ? (not vinum!)

2004-07-04 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
Is there an implementation of an LVM in FreeBSD ? Vinum is not sufficient. I am looking for a true LVM where creating and resizing volumes is a must. Something like Solaris Disksuite with softpartitioning is something I could live with already, but it just does not seem to exist. Am I correct

Softpartitioning on FreeBSD ? (vinum?)

2004-07-03 Thread Stephan van Beerschoten
it. Do I need to look towards vinum, or is there something else I am missing ? The server won't be build untill Q4 this year, so I'm hoping to utilize any 5-RELEASE that may come up then since I'm already a fan of the current -CURRENT which I actively use on my

terabyte limit problem with vinum

2004-06-27 Thread Richard Holmes
Everything is fine until "newfs -U -O2 /dev/vinum/..." gives the "can't read old UFS1 superblock" error. I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 csvup'd to REL_ENG_5_2 in mid June 2004. Thanks, Richard Holmes Lambda Software Development Rocklin, CA (916) 390-2057 (cell) [E

RE: fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Eriksson
l the discs. If this happens to be a disc that is part of a RAID-0 array, then when vinum starts up it detects that one of the discs have disappeared and (correctly) marks the array as crashed. There is no "proper" way to recover from a crashed RAID-0 array - your data is normally lost fore

RE: fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Benjamin P. Keating wrote: > I've found on the net that I can switch the state by doing: > > $ vinum setstate up backup.p0 backup.p0.s3 Ouch, this is a bad move. You just told vinum to start using the stale (=out of date data) disc as if it was up to date and nothing was

fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
This is a good one. $ uname -a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 First I'll explain the stale/degraded issue. Then ask about fsck on a raid5 vinum. My goal is to have the vinum volume check o

vinum disks references & crashed state

2004-06-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I just had a crash on two of the drives on one vinum RAID-5 volume; fortunately I could recover the data and build a new one. However, while doing this I did something 'stupid', which I managed to fix, but I wanted to know what the right way would have been. Like I said one RAID-5

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-18 Thread Lenny Shovsky
uot; synrat wrote: thanx Greg, you're right as always. I booted into single user from start up and sure enough everything was editable then. I got another problem though. I set up 2 disks for vinum and want to allocate exisiting partitions to vinum mirrored volumes. I left 16 blocks at the begining

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-18 Thread synrat
thanx Greg, you're right as always. I booted into single user from start up and sure enough everything was editable then. I got another problem though. I set up 2 disks for vinum and want to allocate exisiting partitions to vinum mirrored volumes. I left 16 blocks at the begining, moved

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Output wrapped. On Thursday, 17 June 2004 at 12:04:01 -0400, synrat wrote: > 4.8 > > I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum. > I am in single user mode, but every time I try > to modify swap size to

vinum setup

2004-06-17 Thread synrat
4.8 I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum. I am in single user mode, but every time I try to modify swap size to accomodate for vinum confuration I get disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: open partition would move or shrink re-edit the label? [y] #size offsetfstype [fsize bsiz

Re: Vinum Problem(?)

2004-06-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
continues and > then all of the sudden the computer reboots. > > The volume which I try to extract files on is a Vinum volume containing > 2 Western Digital 36gb SATA raptor disks (striped) connected via a > Tekram TR822 SATA-controller. Upon reboot it complains about / not being

Vinum Problem(?)

2004-06-02 Thread Erik Mossberg
tract files on is a Vinum volume containing 2 Western Digital 36gb SATA raptor disks (striped) connected via a Tekram TR822 SATA-controller. Upon reboot it complains about / not being properly unmounted, and fsck says something about SUPERBLK, or similar. - ws01-omi# vinum list 2 driv

Re: vinum primary master drive inconsistencies

2004-05-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 May 2004 at 13:12:34 -0400, dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got vinum running on 5.2.1 doing raid1 on two ide drives. I was doing a > installworld in single user mode when it crashed. I was unable to use any > commands because of missing libraries not installed. I unp

vinum primary master drive inconsistencies

2004-05-27 Thread dave
Hello, I've got vinum running on 5.2.1 doing raid1 on two ide drives. I was doing a installworld in single user mode when it crashed. I was unable to use any commands because of missing libraries not installed. I unplugged the master drive, therew in a spare drive as master then did a mi

Re: Vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, FIXED!

2004-05-15 Thread Doug Poland
--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The error messages I'm seeing are... > > > > vinum: dataraid.p0.s1 is stale by force > > vinum: dataraid.p0 is corrupt > > > > > OK, here your second subdisk has gone stale, meani

Re: Vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, please help

2004-05-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 2004 at 20:22:37 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've been running a striped vinum configuration on 7 2.1GB SCSI drives > for almost three years. I recently returned from a vacation to find my > vinum fileserver had crashed. The logs indicated some ty

Vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, please help

2004-05-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been running a striped vinum configuration on 7 2.1GB SCSI drives for almost three years. I recently returned from a vacation to find my vinum fileserver had crashed. The logs indicated some type of problem with my Adaptec 2940AU host adapter. The 2940 seems be working now bu

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text unevenly wrapped. On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 15:00:22 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: > On Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:11 PM, Chris Collins wrote: >> >> I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 13:10:35 -0500, Chris Collins wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody > can answer... I cannot get my /usr/ and /var and for some reason my swap is > showing at 18G... What am I doing wrong? > >

RE: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Lee Dilkie
i don't think you want to vinum a swap partition. you can just create the swap partitions and add them to fstab( or if you run /stand/sysinstall to do the disklabel, it'll populate fstab for you), the OS will nicely share amongst all your swap partitions. and if you only have one driv

vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Chris Collins
Hello I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody can answer... I cannot get my /usr/ and /var and for some reason my swap is showing at 18G... What am I doing wrong? OUTOUT vinum -> create vinum.conf 1 drives: D YouCrazy State:

RE: vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, help needed (resolved)

2004-05-11 Thread Lee Dilkie
that the extra drive I added taxed my power supply just a bit too much. When the 5 baracudda drives were operational under vinum (and striping made them *all* active at once) the resultant strain on the PS lead to signal errors on the scsi bus (fast and wide but not differential). Powering off th

RE: vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, help needed

2004-05-09 Thread Lee Dilkie
restore a drive and re-try the vinum... don't know if that a dumb idea or not but it seemed logical). anyway, i have to figure out a way to get around this read error. or find out what file(s) it affects so i can avoid trying to copy them. Any pointers would be welcome (as I fire up google.

Re: vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, help needed

2004-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 May 2004 at 13:37:42 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been running a 5 disk vinum array (sripted, no redundancy) for a few > months now. It's composed of 5 scsi drives of 4G each. I bought a new 120G > ide drive, with the intention of copyin

vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, help needed

2004-05-08 Thread Lee Dilkie
Hi there, I've been running a 5 disk vinum array (sripted, no redundancy) for a few months now. It's composed of 5 scsi drives of 4G each. I bought a new 120G ide drive, with the intention of copying over all the files from the vinum array and retiring the array (the scsi drives are r

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 23 April 2004 at 14:47:30 -0400, synrat wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 11:32:22 -0400, synrat wrote: >>> >>> does vinum configuration need to be located >>> in the beginning o

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread synrat
thanx Greg. like your book. hope there will be another edition. Does all this mean that if I don't have ~133kb available for Vinum in the beginning of the disk before my first ( root ) partition, I can't use Vinum on that disk ? or would it write half of the configuration in that firs

Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 11:32:22 -0400, synrat wrote: > > does vinum configuration need to be located > in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or > is it possible to store at the end of the drive ? Currently it must be at the beginning of a drive. > the reason I ask

vinum requirements

2004-04-22 Thread synrat
does vinum configuration need to be located in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or is it possible to store at the end of the drive ? the reason I ask is I only have 60kb available in the beginining and the first partition is /. I should be able to shrink swap, which is at the end of the

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 20:34:38 -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > >> http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf > > Ok. I've read both documents, which were quite educational. Thanks. :) >

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf Ok. I've read both documents, which were quite educational. Thanks. :) It seems that what I want to do is install to the first system disk, as normally, and then convert that

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 18:28:47 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: I believe this is still valid: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html Thanks. I just read that chapter, and, while it makes some sense, it didn't tell me

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wo ide disks, during install, and for all >> partitions? This is just to mirror the system disk, so that we can avoid >> downtime, and going to backups in case of a disk failure. If it can be >> done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what >> it

Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
to backups in case of a disk failure. If it can be done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what it is, but nothing about it. I believe this is still valid: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html -- Bill Moran Potential Te

Need vinum info/advice, fast.

2004-04-21 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
sk failure. If it can be done, how do I do it? I've never used vinum before, and only know what it is, but nothing about it. I wish I had more than one night to figure this out, but I don't. If it isn't FreeBSD, he going to likely want me to install Fedora Core 2 Linux, in

Re: vinum drives crash in 5.2.1 but work in 4.9

2004-04-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 18 April 2004 at 16:59:59 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > I have a rather large (ok, I'm insane, its that large) Vinum array, > which works fine in 4.9, but crashes in 5.2.1. I don't think its > vinum's fault, but I could be wrong. > > My question is:

vinum drives crash in 5.2.1 but work in 4.9

2004-04-18 Thread Peter A. Giessel
I have a rather large (ok, I'm insane, its that large) Vinum array, which works fine in 4.9, but crashes in 5.2.1. I don't think its vinum's fault, but I could be wrong. My question is: any ideas as to why the drives crash when accessed and can't be labeled (other than my

vinum havoc

2004-04-16 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
[please honour Mail-Followup-To:, can't read the list until I solve thi until I solve this] Hi, For unknown reasons, vinum has broken itself again (the only weird thing I did was booting from a different root partition). The only commands I have given are start/stop whatever (pretty

Re: Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
about the situation that means -f is needed? In any case, it seems -f does not help. I did a stop on the test/test3 volumes followed by an 'rm -r -f test'. I received no error message, but 'vinum l' still lists the test volume - except now it is still in state 'down

Re: Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

2004-04-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 15 April 2004 at 1:21:02 +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: > I tried: > >scode-whitestar# vinum stop test >scode-whitestar# vinum stop test3 >scode-whitestar# vinum rm -r test >Can't remove test: Device busy (16) > > As I interpret the manpag

Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, so I had set up a rudimentary vinum configuration. I eventually rebooted the machine to make sure everything came up again correctly. It did, but it also picked up a couple of old drives and volumes that I had previously used for testing. "vinum l" now yields: 3 drive

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-07 Thread Rob Ellis
Just a follow up on my recent vinum disk replacement question... I have a two disk mirror and one of the disks died; I'd asked if I could use dd to copy the good disk to a replacement disk and was being persistent about whether that would work or not. %-) I didn't do that (dd). Instead

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-06 Thread Rob Ellis
b Ellis wrote: > >>> We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except > >>> the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second > >>> disk has died and I want to replace it. I can't find a disk exactly > >>> the same, so I

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 19:09:46 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:12:49AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: >>> We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except >

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Rob Ellis
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:12:49AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: > > We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except > > the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second > &

Re: Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 5 April 2004 at 12:42:12 -0400, Rob Ellis wrote: > We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except > the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second > disk has died and I want to replace it. I can't find a disk exactly > the same, so I h

Vinum + new disk for mirror

2004-04-05 Thread Rob Ellis
We have a machine with a vinum mirror, all the partitions except the root partition mirrored between two disks. The second disk has died and I want to replace it. I can't find a disk exactly the same, so I have a disk that's bigger (80GB, old one was 60GB). Can I... - shutdown, r

Re: Vinum Subdisk Crashed - How To Repair? -- SOLVED!!!

2004-04-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
m Yahoo!. Thank you very much for your reply. I’ve tried to clean this up so it remains readable when it reaches you. Heh. I suppose that's a good enough reason. > I have a 4.9-RELEASE-p4 system. I have not made > any changes to any source code. I have 3 vinum > volumes configured.

Re: Vinum query

2004-03-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraph On Thursday, 1 April 2004 at 0:00:29 +0100, Mike Woods wrote: > Ok, the query is this, whats the proccedure, is any for upgrading a > drive used in a vinum volume, i mean could i have a vinum volum

Vinum query

2004-03-31 Thread Mike Woods
Ok, the query is this, whats the proccedure, is any for upgrading a drive used in a vinum volume, i mean could i have a vinum volume with a 20gb disk in, change it for a 40gb alter the vinum configuration accordingly and have it work (after mirroring the data over of course). -- Mike Woods IT

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-31 Thread Ludo Koren
>>> It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was >>> not possible to mirror root partition (at least I found just >>> document 'Bootstrapping Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable >>> Servers' by R.

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-31 Thread Ludo Koren
>>> What you do now depends on the state of the file system. >>> Hopefully you still have the original contents. In this case, >> Yes, I have original contents. The volume size is 15GB just as >> before. > OK. You've seen le's message. No. Probably, I missed it. lk ___

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-29T21:04:19Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 18:38:20 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: >> It has 'historical' reason. I started with vinum, when it was not >> possible to mirror root partitio

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 18:38:20 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: > > >>> >>> vinum -> l ... >>> D d1State: up /dev/da1s1e A: 0/15452 MB (0%) >>> D rd1 State: up /dev/da1s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%) &g

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Ludo Koren
>> >> vinum -> l ... >> D d1State: up /dev/da1s1e A: 0/15452 MB (0%) >> D rd1 State: up /dev/da1s1h A: 0/1023 MB (0%) > You shouldn't have more than one drive per spindle. It

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 9:37:39 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: > > It finished with the following error: > > > > growfs: bad inode number 1 to ginode > > > > I have searched the archives, but did not find any answer. Please, > > could you point to m

Re: growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 March 2004 at 9:37:39 +0200, Ludo Koren wrote: > > > on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3, I did: > > ... > vinum create vinumgrow > > vinumgrow: > drive d3 device /dev/da2s1h > drive d4 device /dev/da3s1h > sd name mirror.p0.s1 drive d3 plex mirror.p0 size 0 >

growfs on vinum volume

2004-03-28 Thread Ludo Koren
0 # "raw" part, don't edit h: 1433639970 vinum # /dev/da3s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 143363981 16unused0 0 c: 1433639970unused0 0

Re: Vinum Subdisk Crashed - How To Repair?

2004-03-27 Thread Drew Tomlinson
very much for your reply. I’ve tried to clean this up so it remains readable when it reaches you. > Heh. I suppose that's a good enough reason. > > I have a 4.9-RELEASE-p4 system. I have not made > > any changes to any source code. I have 3 vinum > > volumes configured.

Re: Vinum Subdisk Crashed - How To Repair?

2004-03-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
changes to any > source code. I have 3 vinum volumes configured. While attempting > to diagnose problems with one of the volumes that uses a firewire > drive, my system crashed with a trap 12 error. I have my /usr > configured as a striped vinum volume with one plex and two subdis

Vinum Subdisk Crashed - How To Repair?

2004-03-26 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Please excuse whatever format in which this email arrives. My system is unusable so I am posting from Yahoo!. I have a 4.9-RELEASE-p4 system. I have not made any changes to any source code. I have 3 vinum volumes configured. While attempting to diagnose problems with one of the volumes that

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
B Size: 4100 MB > > S spanned_log.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 4100 MB Size: 4100 MB > > Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html if you > haven't already done so. Ok, great. -- Sean ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 16:10:13 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:00:18AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 11:12:45 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > >>> after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I se

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:00:18AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 11:12:45 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > > after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I see a line in > > the `vinum list` output which doesn't look right to

Re: vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 March 2004 at 11:12:45 -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello, > > after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I see a line in > the `vinum list` output which doesn't look right to me. Specifically, the > line that refers to spanned_log.p0.s0. Is there a typ

vinum list anomaly

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, after adding too drives as a concatenated vinum volume I see a line in the `vinum list` output which doesn't look right to me. Specifically, the line that refers to spanned_log.p0.s0. Is there a typical explanation for something like this? 2 drives: D a Stat

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