Vinum troubleshooting
afreedma at mac.com
afreedma at mac.com
Thu Sep 29 13:33:50 PDT 2016
Hi Stefan,
You were right - I missed the init step.
You were also right that init is a really slow process; it’s still going after 7 days… does that seem normal?
Also, every time I run vinum lp I get errors in /var/log/messages.
loki# vinum lp
P storage.p0 R5 State: initializing Subdisks: 6 Size: 9315 GB
loki# tail -n 2 /var/log/messages
Sep 30 06:32:24 loki kernel: vinumioctl: invalid ioctl from process 17520 (vinum): 40906468
Sep 30 06:32:24 loki kernel: vinumioctl: invalid ioctl from process 17521 (vinum): 40906468
(It’s two rows each time.)
I’m fine to keep waiting for a really long init, I’m just starting to think it will never finish…
- Andrew
> On 22 Sep 2016, at 12:51 AM, Stefan Unterweger <232.20711 at chiffre.aleturo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Vinum is weird enough that I have fumbled around quite some time before
> finally getting it to work, and had to give up on lvm as well. But once
> it works, I‘ve had no further problems with vinum.
>
> So, for your problem:
> You -did- initialise your plex after creating it?
> That’s probably what ‘State: init’ is trying to day.
>
> → ‘vinum init storage.p0’
>
> * afreedma at mac.com on Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 07:42:45AM +1000:
>> loki# vinum l
>> 6 drives:
>> D d1 State: up Device /dev/da0s1a Avail: 13/1907725 MB (0%)
>> D d2 State: up Device /dev/da1s1a Avail: 189438/2097150 MB (9%)
>> D d3 State: up Device /dev/da3s1a Avail: 189438/2097150 MB (9%)
>> D d4 State: up Device /dev/da4s1a Avail: 13/1907725 MB (0%)
>> D d5 State: up Device /dev/da5s1a Avail: 13/1907725 MB (0%)
>> D d6 State: up Device /dev/da6s1a Avail: 13/1907725 MB (0%)
>>
>> 1 volumes:
>> V storage State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 9315 GB
>>
>> 1 plexes:
>> P storage.p0 R5 State: init Subdisks: 6 Size: 9315 GB
>>
>> 6 subdisks:
>> S storage.p0.s0 State: empty PO: 0 B Size: 1863 GB
>> S storage.p0.s1 State: empty PO: 512 kB Size: 1863 GB
>> S storage.p0.s2 State: empty PO: 1024 kB Size: 1863 GB
>> S storage.p0.s3 State: empty PO: 1536 kB Size: 1863 GB
>> S storage.p0.s4 State: empty PO: 2048 kB Size: 1863 GB
>> S storage.p0.s5 State: empty PO: 2560 kB Size: 1863 GB
>
> This should print out some messages that your subdisks are being
> initialised—and with drives this large, will take an awfully long time.
>
> From vinum(8):
> | init [-S size] [-w] plex | subdisk
> | vinum init initializes a subdisk by writing zeroes to it. You
> | can initialize all subdisks in a plex by specifying the plex
> | name. This is the only way to ensure consistent data in a plex.
> | You must perform this initialization before using a RAID-5 plex.
> | It is also recommended for other new plexes. vinum initializes
> | all subdisks of a plex in parallel. Since this operation can
> | take a long time, it is normally performed in the background. If
> | you want to wait for completion of the command, use the -w (wait)
> | option.
>
> Once it is through (perhaps even before that), you’ll find your RAID-5
> volume as /dev/vinum/vol/storage
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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