AIX 5.1

Hi all,

Today, an IBM tech came to change a defective system disk on a F50.
Seemingly, the brand new disk works fine ('diag' returns no errors).
But when I try to recreate the rootvg mirror, I obtain the following
message :

# mirrorvg rootvg hdisk1
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd9var.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd3.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd1.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume
hd10opt.
0516-932 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize volume group rootvg.
0516-1126 mirrorvg: rootvg successfully mirrored, user should perform
bosboot of system to initialize boot records. Then, user must
modify
bootlist to include : hdisk1 hdisk0.


The mirror seems to be effective though :

# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT
POINT
hd5 boot 2 4 2 closed/syncd N/A
hd6 paging 256 512 2 open/syncd N/A
hd8 jfslog 1 2 2 open/syncd N/A
hd4 jfs 5 10 2 open/syncd /
hd2 jfs 220 440 2 open/syncd /usr
hd9var jfs 16 32 2 open/stale /var
hd3 jfs 6 12 2 open/stale /tmp
hd1 jfs 1 2 2 open/stale /home
hd10opt jfs 8 16 2 open/stale /opt



Any idea?

Best regards

bootinfo -b
depending on the result ( hdisk1 or hdisk0 )
unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk# ( the opposite to one you get as output from
prev. command )
then
lsvg -l rootvg
make sure you don't have any stale partitions then mirror rootvg again.

Ok, I've done what you recommended, I succesfully unmirrored my rootvg.

Here is the result of 'lsvg -l rootvg ' :

# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT
POINT
hd5 boot 2 2 1 closed/syncd N/A
hd6 paging 256 256 1 open/syncd N/A
hd8 jfslog 1 1 1 open/syncd N/A
hd4 jfs 5 5 1 open/syncd /
hd2 jfs 220 220 1 open/syncd /usr
hd9var jfs 16 32 2 open/stale /var
hd3 jfs 6 12 2 open/stale /tmp
hd1 jfs 1 2 2 open/stale /home
hd10opt jfs 8 16 2 open/stale /opt

What is a 'stale' partition anyway?

Thx a lot for your help.

Regards

stale means it doesn't have all PP active/available

Ok, I've done what you recommended, I succesfully unmirrored my rootvg.

Here is the result of 'lsvg -l rootvg ' :

# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT
POINT
hd5 boot 2 2 1 closed/syncd N/A
hd6 paging 256 256 1 open/syncd N/A
hd8 jfslog 1 1 1 open/syncd N/A
hd4 jfs 5 5 1 open/syncd /
hd2 jfs 220 220 1 open/syncd /usr
hd9var jfs 16 32 2 open/stale /var
hd3 jfs 6 12 2 open/stale /tmp
hd1 jfs 1 2 2 open/stale /home
hd10opt jfs 8 16 2 open/stale /opt

What is a 'stale' partition anyway?

Thx a lot for your help.

Regards

Damn, iam stil a noob in using Google groups...shame on me.

Ok then I guess i have a problem.....

Can I force inactive PP's to become active?

unmirrorvg first, make sure you don't have any stale partitions ( lslv
on lv that listed open/stale to find out more information )...
and make sure you don't have ANY h/w problem with those 2
disks/adapters...
reducevg to remove new disk from rootvg
lsvg -l rootvg to make sure no stale partitions
if so
extendvg rootvg hdisk# ( new one )
mirrorvg rootvg

syncvg -v rootvg

JaYmZ
<tomapam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Damn, iam stil a noob in using Google groups...shame on me.
>
> Ok then I guess i have a problem.....
>
> Can I force inactive PP's to become active?
>

IBM support provided me the solution today.

# rmlvcopy hd3 1 00301370bf17265a

The same command must be run with all /dev/device containing stale PP's

('00301370bf17265a' is the defective removed disk's ID)

Then :

# reducevg -df rootvg 00301370bf17265a

Finally, I was able to recreate the system mirror succesfully,


Peace