[SunHELP] Disksuite - conflicting info

ahamed afrose sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Feb 14 06:47:21 CST 2001


Steven,
I see the same on my machines, apparently the metatool is not accurate. I even
applied the latest patches but to no avail. Stick to the command line, thats
accurate.
cheers
/afrose

"Hatle, Steven J." wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a Solaris 2.6 box running Disksuite to mirror all the
> slices/filesystems between two physical disks, all off one controller (yes,
> I realize this is sub-optimal, but the boxes are nodes in a
> Stonebeat/Checkpoint cluster, so the failure of one isn't a drop dead
> emergency, just a hassle).
>
> Anyway, from the command line, metastat and metadb tell me everything is OK,
> as far as I can tell. However, I went into the graphical tool (metatool)
> today, and everything is shown in a "critical" state. The problem appears to
> be that metatool doesn't think that there are any valid state databases.
>
> So, who do I believe- and how should I CYA so that there are no/minimal
> problems when I have to eventually reboot this machine?
>
> Output of appropriate commands below.  .  .sorry for the verbosity.
>
> TIA,
>
> Steve
>
> ./metadb -i
>
>         flags           first blk       block count
>      a m  p  luo        16              1034            /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4
>      a    p  luo        1050            1034            /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4
>      a    p  luo        16              1034            /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s4
>      a    p  luo        1050            1034            /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s4
>
>  o - replica active prior to last mddb configuration change
>  u - replica is up to date
>  l - locator for this replica was read successfully
>  c - replica's location was in /etc/opt/SUNWmd/mddb.cf
>  p - replica's location was patched in kernel
>  m - replica is master, this is replica selected as input
>  W - replica has device write errors
>  a - replica is active, commits are occurring to this replica
>  M - replica had problem with master blocks
>  D - replica had problem with data blocks
>  F - replica had format problems
>  S - replica is too small to hold current data base
>  R - replica had device read errors
>
> ./metastat
>
> d2: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d0
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d1
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 445284 blocks
>
> d0: Submirror of d2
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 445284 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s0                   0     No    Okay
>
> d1: Submirror of d2
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 445284 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s0                   0     No    Okay
>
> d5: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d3
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d4
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>
> d3: Submirror of d5
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s1                   0     No    Okay
>
> d4: Submirror of d5
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s1                   0     No    Okay
>
> d8: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d6
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d7
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 1052163 blocks
>
> d6: Submirror of d8
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 1052163 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s3                   0     No    Okay
>
> d7: Submirror of d8
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 1052163 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s3                   0     No    Okay
>
> d11: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d9
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d10
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 2847663 blocks
>
> d9: Submirror of d11
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 2847663 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s5                   0     No    Okay
>
> d10: Submirror of d11
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 2847663 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s5                   0     No    Okay
>
> d14: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d12
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d13
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>
> d12: Submirror of d14
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s6                   0     No    Okay
>
> d13: Submirror of d14
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 6144201 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s6                   0     No    Okay
>
> d17: Mirror
>     Submirror 0: d15
>       State: Okay
>     Submirror 1: d16
>       State: Okay
>     Pass: 1
>     Read option: roundrobin (default)
>     Write option: parallel (default)
>     Size: 1027026 blocks
>
> d15: Submirror of d17
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 1027026 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t0d0s7                   0     No    Okay
>
> d16: Submirror of d17
>     State: Okay
>     Size: 1027026 blocks
>     Stripe 0:
>         Device              Start Block  Dbase State        Hot Spare
>         c0t8d0s7                   0     No    Okay
>
> Metatool log:
>
> 010213 12:00:13 MetaDB: No replicas.
>                 MetaDB: One or more replicas are in an errored state.
>                 MetaDB: All replicas are on fewer than 3 controllers.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d0: Slice "c0t0d0s0" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d1: Slice "c0t8d0s0" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d10: Slice "c0t8d0s5" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d11: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d12: Slice "c0t0d0s6" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d13: Slice "c0t8d0s6" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d14: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d15: Slice "c0t0d0s7" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d16: Slice "c0t8d0s7" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d17: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d2: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d3: Slice "c0t0d0s1" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d4: Slice "c0t8d0s1" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d5: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d6: Slice "c0t0d0s3" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d7: Slice "c0t8d0s3" has erred.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d8: No valid submirrors.
>
>
> 010213 12:00:13 d9: Slice "c0t0d0s5" has erred.
>
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> Steve Hatle
> VUE - a Pearson company
> shatle at vue.com
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