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Old 26th May 2010
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Exclamation Rescuing broken RAID5 gvinum volume

I'm hoping that someone can help with this problem. I have a RAID5 gvinum volume that was working and then encountered a few problems which I responded to by running fsck. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning of my troubles.

The system is currently running FreeBSD 7.3 release, but was running FreeBSD 8.0 release (that may in fact be part of my problems).

Here's the details (everything looks fine and I've rebuilt the parity on the drives):

Code:
gvinum -> l
3 drives:
D d2                    State: up	/dev/ad6s1a	A: 0/152626 MB (0%)
D d1                    State: up	/dev/ad4s1a	A: 0/152626 MB (0%)
D d0                    State: up	/dev/ad2s1a	A: 0/152626 MB (0%)

1 volume:
V music                 State: up	Plexes:       1	Size:        298 GB

1 plex:
P music.p0           R5 State: up	Subdisks:     3	Size:        298 GB

3 subdisks:
S music.p0.s0           State: up	D: d0           Size:        149 GB
S music.p0.s1           State: up	D: d1           Size:        149 GB
S music.p0.s2           State: up	D: d2           Size:        149 GB
However, if I try to mount it:

Code:
# mount /dev/gvinum/music /music
mount: /dev/gvinum/music : Invalid argument
There's definitely something there:

Code:
# ls -ltr /dev/gvinum/music 
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  88 May 24 11:45 /dev/gvinum/music
But this doesn't work well:

Code:
# fsck -n -t ufs /dev/gvinum/music
** /dev/gvinum/music (NO WRITE)
Cannot find file system superblock
ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device
fsck_ufs: /dev/gvinum/music: can't read disk label
And this looks bad:

Code:
# file - < /dev/gvinum/music
/dev/stdin: data
Does anyone have any advice? Is it possible to create a new volume and attach the existing plex to that without losing data? Or a create a new plex and add the existing subdisks, and then add the new plex to a new volume?

I'd appreciate any help.

Cheers,

Matt.

Last edited by vermaden; 26th May 2010 at 07:52 AM. Reason: Use [ code ] tags.
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Old 26th May 2010
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I assume your data is important to you, otherwise you would not RAID-5 it. I would recommend first making a complete backup of all three disks using dd_rescue (sysutils/dd_rescue), just in case you make things worse.
If you do not have three spare disks, try borrowing some. Or buying some from a store that allows returns and returning them after you're done.

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The system is currently running FreeBSD 7.3 release, but was running FreeBSD 8.0 release (that may in fact be part of my problems).
I'm not sure, if I look at the CVS logs I don't see a lot of change going on in the gvinum tool and kernel module.
You can try downloading the 8.0 livefs CD, boot from it, and see if you're able to mount your RAID-5 filesystem.

To check if there if *something* at /dev/gvinum/music you can use something like this (From one of my systems):

Code:
[~]# head -c `dc -e '1024 2 ^p'` /dev/mirror/datad | strings
/data
data
data
+%E|
7Qhn
V*+2
/dev/mirror/datad being mounted as /data. You can try increasing the number for head, UFS filesystems seem to start with a whole lot of nothing.
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