Vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, FIXED!

[Doug Poland]

--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> 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, meaning that updates
> have been missed.  There's every reason to believe that the data is
> inconsistent, but possibly it's nothing that an fsck couldn't gloss
> over.
> 
> In this case, use "setstate":
> 
>   # vinum setstate up dataraid.p0.s1  dataraid.p0
> 
That worked, thanks.  If you don't mind, could you point me to some
documentation that explains a little more about what setstate does and
why?

> Then do your fsck--if you want to be cautious, fsck -n in case
> something goes seriously wrong--and confirm that you can still access
> the file system on the volume.  If that's OK, do a
> 
I can see the filesystem but thousands of files have problems.  I ran
fsck -y and the disk is marked clean and I could mount the filesystem. 


>   # vinum saveconfig
> 
> Until you do the saveconfig, the changes you made with setstate are
> only in memory, and unless something else saves the state, they will
> be gone on reboot.
> 
OK, that's done too.  Upon inspection alot of data is missing from the
filesystem.  No worries, I have a complete backup from 11 hours before
the crash.

Many thanks for your help Greg.

-- 
Regards,
Doug


	
		
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