Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 October 2004 at 14:52:48 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: >> Can you be more specific? > > My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific: > >drive ad5 device /dev/ad5s1e

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Everlund
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific:

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi Greg and list! > > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? > One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and > makes the usual noises, but then it stalls wi

VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-heads mec

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:56:58 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> No, that's not correct. It does happen if you choose too small a >> stripe size, but that's the best reason for choosing larger stripes. >> That's described in much detail in the man page. > > How can it not be correct? When

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-24 Thread Danny Carroll
> No, that's not correct. It does happen if you choose too small a > stripe size, but that's the best reason for choosing larger stripes. > That's described in much detail in the man page. How can it not be correct? When you write some data, it writes to all 4 disks, when you read it reads from

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:30:15 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >>> vinum and ide on my system results is very poor disk performance, I >>> see a 10-fold increase in read/write actions. I'll be interested in >>> revisiting vinum with some SCSI disks sometime soon. >> >> How did you test it? >

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Danny Carroll
> We already discussed this. The likelihood of such far-reaching damage > is low. > Hmmm ok.. > > I can't prove any of this since I urgently needed about 150gb of > > space. So I re-formatted. > > > > Like I said it is a shame since I wanted to understand what happened > > now, but, then again,

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 12:44:19 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a > restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug > this to better understand what happened. > > I think it wen

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-23 Thread Danny Carroll
Greg, Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug this to better understand what happened. I think it went something like this: ide drive crashes. kernel panics (for this or some other

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 20 February 2004 at 9:22:21 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe >> it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum agai

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 9:46:35 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Tony et al,.. > > Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe > it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. > > I guess my main concern is that when one of m

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 1:04:29 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> Quoting Tony Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> So you have a subdisk down which means Vinum can still read from the plex >>> but has to manually calculate th

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 9:34:29 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I answered an almost identical question yesterday: it depends on the >> volume structure, which you haven't stated. Look at >> http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-19 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe > it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. > > I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, th

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-19 Thread Danny Carroll
Tony et al,.. Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, the ufs filesystem got corrupted and I really did not expect th

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Quoting Tony Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So you have a subdisk down which means Vinum can still read from the plex > > but has to manually calculate the missing subdisk data. > But I assume it cant write till I replace it..

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Danny Carroll
Quoting Tony Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, this is wrong - you really just want to define one vinum drive per > physical device. > Ie for a particular disk, give it a single 'vinum' partition using disklabel. > Then use different subdisks to split your space up. I was afraid of that Noted

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:34:29AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If this volume has only one plex, you're lost, unless you can bring up > > the failed disk long enough to make a backup. > Here is the output: > > 20 drives: > D data1

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-18 Thread Danny Carroll
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I answered an almost identical question yesterday: it depends on the > volume structure, which you haven't stated. Look at > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply in > particular the output of 'vinum list', unless the following

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 14:27:51 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Hello, > > About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. > However, the major problem is now that the file system is corr

Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Danny Carroll
Hello, About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. However, the major problem is now that the file system is corrupt. It appears I have lost all of my 300Gb virtual disk... This is what I found in the message log. Jan 2 04:13:07 guard /kernel: ad4s1a: hard error reading fsbn

Re: disk crash

2003-02-22 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wojtek Bauman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hello! > > I've got a problem with my disk on FreeBSD. Few days ago I tried to mount > a partition on /usr, but it told me that it's not clean and that > I have to use fsck. So I tried, but then I saw this: > THE FOLLOWING DISK SEC

disk crash

2003-02-22 Thread Wojtek Bauman
Hello! I've got a problem with my disk on FreeBSD. Few days ago I tried to mount a partition on /usr, but it told me that it's not clean and that I have to use fsck. So I tried, but then I saw this: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,