freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

secmgr security at jim-liesl.org
Sat Nov 6 21:30:03 PST 2004


I did a gvinum start.

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 04:16, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 21:27 schrieb secmgr:
> > Just ran into this myself.  I had a perfectly happy raid 5 plex under
> > 5.3 RC1.  I upgrade to RC2, and the whole plex goes stale.  I deleted
> > everything from the volume on down (except for the drives), and tried
> > to recreate the vol/plex/sd's.  gvinum creates them, but they come
> > back (like the undead) as stale and unusable (just like they were
> > before). I'm finding commands documented (in help), but unimplemented
> > (checkparity?  init?).
> 
> Did you try to simply 'start' the plex? This works for initialisation of 
> a newly created RAID5-Plex as well as for recalculating parity 
> informations on a degraded RAID5-Plex.
> 
> It's that simple (at least for me on 5-STABLE) but admittedly 
> undocumented.



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