After a reboot on 4.8 I ended up with a degraded raid 5 partition... The only thing special about my setup is.... 4944 drives spread over 3 channels, running SMP kernel.....
One sub disk was down and the and the drive was referenced... in scouring the mailing lists I saw where a referenced disk means you have referenced a non-existent drive - I read this as one vinum didn't think was defined.. in my case it was drive29 --> /dev/da29s1e I don't know how this got referenced !!! It's been reboot many times and this has not happened. So I boldly created a config file for vinum and re-created the drive..... --- config file ---- drive drvie29 device /dev/da29e --- end ---- but I still can not start the sub disk..... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /home/staff/mikej# vinum start raid5-1.p0.s15 Can't start raid5-1.p0.s15: Drive is down (5) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /home/staff/mikej# Here is what vinum thinks...... Do I rm the sub disk and re-create it????? Will this kill my raid-5 partition ?? Thanks !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /home/staff/mikej# vinum printconfig # Vinum configuration of jammin.mikej.com, saved at Fri May 30 18:15:48 2003 drive drive1 device /dev/da1s1e drive drive2 device /dev/da2s1e drive drive3 device /dev/da3s1e drive d2 device /dev/da15s1e drive drive16 device /dev/da16s1e drive drive17 device /dev/da17s1e drive drive18 device /dev/da18s1e drive drive19 device /dev/da19s1e drive d1 device /dev/da20s1e drive drive21 device /dev/da21s1e drive drive22 device /dev/da22s1e drive drive23 device /dev/da23s1e drive drive24 device /dev/da24s1e drive drive25 device /dev/da25s1e drive drive26 device /dev/da26s1e drive drive27 device /dev/da27s1e drive drive28 device /dev/da28s1e drive drive29 device /dev/da29s1e drive *invalid* device volume mirror1 volume raid5-1 plex name mirror1.p0 org concat vol mirror1 plex name mirror1.p1 org concat vol mirror1 plex name raid5-1.p0 org raid5 62s vol raid5-1 sd name mirror.p0.s0 drive d1 plex mirror1.p0 len 35551232s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s sd name mirror.p1.s0 drive d2 plex mirror1.p1 len 35551232s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s sd name raid5-1.p0.s0 drive drive1 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s sd name raid5-1.p0.s1 drive drive2 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 62s sd name raid5-1.p0.s2 drive drive3 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 124s sd name raid5-1.p0.s3 drive drive16 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 186s sd name raid5-1.p0.s4 drive drive17 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 248s sd name raid5-1.p0.s5 drive drive18 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 310s sd name raid5-1.p0.s6 drive drive19 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 372s sd name raid5-1.p0.s7 drive drive21 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 434s sd name raid5-1.p0.s8 drive drive22 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 496s sd name raid5-1.p0.s9 drive drive23 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 558s sd name raid5-1.p0.s10 drive drive24 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 620s sd name raid5-1.p0.s11 drive drive25 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 682s sd name raid5-1.p0.s12 drive drive26 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 744s sd name raid5-1.p0.s13 drive drive27 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 806s sd name raid5-1.p0.s14 drive drive28 plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 868s sd name raid5-1.p0.s15 drive *invalid* plex raid5-1.p0 len 35551172s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 930s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /etc# vinum l 18 drives: D drive1 State: up Device /dev/da1s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive2 State: up Device /dev/da2s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive3 State: up Device /dev/da3s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D d2 State: up Device /dev/da15s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive16 State: up Device /dev/da16s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive17 State: up Device /dev/da17s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive18 State: up Device /dev/da18s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive19 State: up Device /dev/da19s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D d1 State: up Device /dev/da20s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive21 State: up Device /dev/da21s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive22 State: up Device /dev/da22s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive23 State: up Device /dev/da23s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive24 State: up Device /dev/da24s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive25 State: up Device /dev/da25s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive26 State: up Device /dev/da26s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive27 State: up Device /dev/da27s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive28 State: up Device /dev/da28s1e Avail: 0/17359 MB (0%) D drive29 State: up Device /dev/da29s1e Avail: 17359/17359 MB (100%) D *invalid* State: referenced Device Avail: 0/0 MB 2 volumes: V mirror1 State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 16 GB V raid5-1 State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 254 GB 3 plexes: P mirror1.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 16 GB P mirror1.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 16 GB P raid5-1.p0 R5 State: degraded Subdisks: 16 Size: 254 GB 18 subdisks: S mirror.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 16 GB S mirror.p1.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s1 State: up PO: 31 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s2 State: up PO: 62 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s3 State: up PO: 93 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s4 State: up PO: 124 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s5 State: up PO: 155 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s6 State: up PO: 186 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s7 State: up PO: 217 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s8 State: up PO: 248 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s9 State: up PO: 279 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s10 State: up PO: 310 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s11 State: up PO: 341 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s12 State: up PO: 372 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s13 State: up PO: 403 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s14 State: up PO: 434 kB Size: 16 GB S raid5-1.p0.s15 State: stale PO: 465 kB Size: 16 GB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /etc# _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"