(correction) Disksuite 4.2.1 fails to mount newly newfs'ed volume

From: John Adams (jna@retina.net)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 07:56:06 EST


Correction to this posting (sorry),

The RAID is a D1000, not an A1000. (We have both a D1000 and an A1000
connected to this machine, but the question concerns our D1000). This is
on Solaris 8,

db3:/# uname -a
SunOS db3 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-8

Thanks again,

-john

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, John Adams wrote:

>
> Hello sun-managers, I've got a question for you.
>
> I have a 8 disk A1000 that has 8 disks in it, and I've constructed a
> RAID5 out of it:
>
> db3:/# metastat
> d10: RAID
> State: Okay
> Hot spare pool: hsp001
> Interlace: 128 blocks
> Size: 355612788 blocks
> Original device:
> Size: 355614720 blocks
> Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
> c3t2d0s2 4179 No Okay
> c3t3d0s2 4179 No Okay
> c3t8d0s2 4179 No Okay
> c3t9d0s2 4179 Yes Okay
> c3t10d0s2 4179 Yes Okay
> c3t11d0s2 4179 Yes Okay
>
> hsp001: 2 hot spares
> c3t0d0s2 Available 71127180 blocks
> c3t1d0s2 Available 71127180 blocks
>
> All of the labels are exactly the same, and my metadb slices are shared
> with data slices (this is supported, from what I've read).
>
> I can successfully newfs this filesystem (/dev/md/dsk/d10)....
>
> Rounded cgsize up to 48
> /dev/md/rdsk/d10: 355612788 sectors in 123092 cylinders of 27
> tracks, 107 sectors
> 173639.1MB in 3847 cyl groups (32 c/g, 45.14MB/g, 5632 i/g)
>
> ... but attempts to mount the filesystem produce this error:
>
> db3:/# mount /dev/md/dsk/d10 /raid
> mount: /dev/md/dsk/d10 is not this fstype.
>
> Any thoughts to what could be causing this? I've rebooted several times,
> attempted to re-create the volume, but nothing works. I can't even fsck
> the new volume either:
>
> db3:/# fsck /dev/md/rdsk/d10
>
> ** /dev/md/rdsk/d10
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;
> eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]
> where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).
>
> db3:/#
>
> Thanks for any help you can give. This should be ultimately simple, but it
> hasn't proven to work yet!
>
> --john
>
>

-- 
J. Adams					http://www.retina.net/~jna
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