Gvinum RAID5 volume don't work after a simple reboot

Lukas Ertl le at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 27 13:10:36 PST 2006


On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Olivier Cochard wrote:

> Here is an example of output during the starting of the volume:
>
> =============================
> 3 drives:
>
> D disk_ad1              State: up     /dev/ad1s1     A: 0/238475 MB (0%)
>
> D disk_ad2              State: up     /dev/ad2s1     A: 0/238475 MB (0%)
>
> D disk_ad3              State: up     /dev/ad3s1     A: 0/238475 MB (0%)

Are there no bsdlabels on the disks?  I.e., is this device listing 
intended (ad1s1 instead of ad1s1a).

> But, Once it gets to "UP", it's impossible to mount the volume:
>
> mount: /dev/gvinum/fatty on /mnt/home1: incorrect super block.

This question might sound stupid, but is there a filesystem on the device? 
If it initializes, the filesystem is gone, if there ever was one.

regards,
le

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