I lost three of disks on my raid set and installed three new ones. Configured them and did a reinitialize. I can not mount them because it says the fileset does not contain a valid ADVFS file system. Did I miss a step? How do I rebuild after I reinitialize? Any help is appreciated!
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How do I rebuild raid5 on digital unix 4.0E?
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Hi meinnm,
"I lost three of disks on my raid set and installed three new ones."
You don't say whether they were in the same raid set (0,1, or 5 or ?) or not. Have you now lost the 'integrity' of the raid set?
"Configured them and did a reinitialize."
You don't say how - please be more specific. Was it from the 'hardware controller' or was it by using UNIX commands?
Regards.
Mike
"I lost three of disks on my raid set and installed three new ones."
You don't say whether they were in the same raid set (0,1, or 5 or ?) or not. Have you now lost the 'integrity' of the raid set?
"Configured them and did a reinitialize."
You don't say how - please be more specific. Was it from the 'hardware controller' or was it by using UNIX commands?
Regards.
Mike
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Hi meinnm,
I am still not clear on precisely how extensive the 'damage' is to one or more of your raid sets. In your original post you said "I lost three of disks on my raid set and installed three new ones.". How many raid sets are involved? What type are they? (ie are they mirrors, stripes, striped mirrors or RAID5, etc?) How many 'hot spares' did you have? Did you install the three new ones all at the same time or over a period of time (following individual disk failures)?
Answering these questions will (hopefully) enable me to ascertain whether your data is still present on the disks in an accessible/retrievable form or whether the 'integrity' of the raid set(s) has been compromised (thus requiring a complete rebuild and the data restored from backup). I don't know what state the disks are in, so I don't want to recommend a course of action which might un-necessarily reformat your disks, thus losing all the data.
I hope that makes sense.
Regards.
Mike
I am still not clear on precisely how extensive the 'damage' is to one or more of your raid sets. In your original post you said "I lost three of disks on my raid set and installed three new ones.". How many raid sets are involved? What type are they? (ie are they mirrors, stripes, striped mirrors or RAID5, etc?) How many 'hot spares' did you have? Did you install the three new ones all at the same time or over a period of time (following individual disk failures)?
Answering these questions will (hopefully) enable me to ascertain whether your data is still present on the disks in an accessible/retrievable form or whether the 'integrity' of the raid set(s) has been compromised (thus requiring a complete rebuild and the data restored from backup). I don't know what state the disks are in, so I don't want to recommend a course of action which might un-necessarily reformat your disks, thus losing all the data.
I hope that makes sense.
Regards.
Mike
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