Disk corruption in Solaris 10 with mirrors

I have had 5 different Sun sparc servers in the past couple of months come up with badly corrupted file systems. I am using They are all mirrored metadisks. One thing I have looked into is using the UFS logging option, but from what I read, it doesn't need to be specified in /etc/vfstab because it is on by default in Solaris 10. Is this true?
Also, is there a problem with shutting down or rebooting the OS with the init commands? Should I be using shutdown instead? Does init 0, 5 or 6 cleanly shutdown the system?
Thanks

Hello,
Init 0 is very nice command which is gracefully shutting down all the services in the system including the OS. But the system will be powered on unless you execute powerdown from rsc.
In the case of mirroring metadisks entries can reduce a lot of file system related errors because those entries ("device to fsck") forces the filesystem check in those meta devices in every reboot.
Please have look on vfstab in my test server where i have mirrored disks.
bash-3.00# more /etc/vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d1 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d0 /dev/md/rdsk/d0 / ufs 1 no -
/dev/md/dsk/d2 /dev/md/rdsk/d2 /var ufs 1 no -
/devices - /devices devfs - no -
ctfs - /system/contract ctfs - no -
objfs - /system/object objfs - no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
bash-3.00#
Please do "iostat -En" and check for the errors so that you will get a better understanding.
Thanks,
Sal.

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A few days ago, I have asked a question about“ASM disk header corruption”at ASM disk header corruption .
Because it was only my assumption, I didn't think about it deeply. This morning I encountered a problem from a thread. It said that the diskgroup couldn't mount, and ORA-15196 appeared in the alert.log.
It occurred to me that if the diskgroup couldn't mount and the header of an asm disk corrupted, how should I deal with it? Will the data in the ASM disk be lost?
Please help me with this problem.
Thanks in advance.

user526904 wrote:
I hope you have the backup, Incase its the media failure and if you can detemine the corroupt datafiles, just restore the corroupt datafiles from backup and recover them. Database backups cannot restore a corrupted ASM header. rman backups the Oracle data files. Not the physical ASM disk itself with the disk's headers.
To restore that, you will need a physical disk backup. A physical disk backup will need all processes using the disks to terminate in order to ensure that all file handles are closed and that the backup is consistent. Not something that is easily done in today's 24x7 environments. RAID is usually used to address this type of failure (e.g. via hot swappable disks, where you simply replace the faulty disk with a new one, while the storage system is running).
So where you do not have that physical redundancy, and have to deal with "physical disk" error (like corrupted header blocks), you need to be extremely careful on how to try and recover that. I would not even try and touch that disk. I will ensure that no processes touch that disk at all, create a duplicate disk (same size) and manually "mirror" the data (using dd for example). This will serve two purposes. Tests whether physical reads on the problem disk succeeds (is this actual media failure, or logical failure?). And create a 2nd disk that can be used for testing/playing purposes, prior to trying any fixes on the problem disk.

Disk size in Solaris 10

I have some confusion about disk subsystem in Solaris, i am trying to clarify from this forum.
I have recently installed Solaris 10 in one SPARC box. After i installed, the format gives the bellow output.
0 root wm 19491 - 29648 4.88GB (10158/0/0) 10239264
1 swap wu 0 - 4062 1.95GB (4063/0/0) 4095504
2 backup wm 0 - 29648 14.25GB (29649/0/0) 29886192
From the above output, is the size of my disk is 14 GB ?, or the size of my disk is 14+2+5=21 GB ?
I am trying to learn ZFS, so i want another partition in this disk so that i create ZFS on that partition.
I have gone to single user mode by using CD. I assumed that, from the above "format" command output, i thought i have 21GB of disk size and 14GB of free space. So i created another partition with 14GB. Now the format command gives bellow output.
0 root wm 19491 - 29648 4.88GB (10158/0/0) 10239264
1 swap wu 0 - 4062 1.95GB (4063/0/0) 4095504
2 backup wm 0 - 29648 14.25GB (29649/0/0) 29886192
3 reserved wm 0 - 29127 14.00GB (29128/0/0) 29361024
When i am creating ZFS, it given me a warning that the the partition i have specified is spanned into root partition (first partition), and it mentioned to use "-f" option.
With "-f", it created successfully.
If i assume now that the size of my disk is 14GB only then,
(1) how come two partitions are pointing to the same area in the disk ?
(2) How come two different filesystems are pointing to the same area ?
Please anyone clarify my doubts. Thank you.

Assuming a standard labeled disk it is standrad practice to have section/slice 2 being 'whole disk' for purposes of 'backup'. That would tend to indicate you have a 14GB disk. A prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2 (change the ?s to the right values) will give a little more on the disk geometry.
In the display from format column 4 is the start cylinder of the partition and column 5 is the end cylinder. From the first set out output it looks like cyclinders 4063 to 19490 are not allocated
In the second set you have created a new slice (section 3) that overlaps both sections 0 and 1 - which is generally considered to be bad!

After Patch 10.2.0.4, got "voting disk corrupted" error.

Dear all,
My setting is:
OS:RHEL4.8 U8 x86
DB:10.2.0.1
CRS:10.2.0.1
After I installed Patchset 10.2.0.4 and execute $CRS_HOME/install/root102.sh, I could't start clusterware anymore. After checking ocssd.log, I found some messages like this:
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.519 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssscmain: local-only set to false
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.562 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmReadNodeInfo: added node 1 (x101) to cluster
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.578 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmReadNodeInfo: added node 2 (x102) to cluster
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.580 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmInitNMInfo: Initialized with unique 1262850786
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.586 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssNMInitialize: Initializing with OCR id (33483723)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.650 [84294560] >TRACE: clssnm_skgxninit: Compatible vendor clusterware not in use
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.650 [84294560] >TRACE: clssnm_skgxnmon: skgxn init failed
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.657 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmNMInitialize: misscount set to (60), impending reconfig threshold set to (56000)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.659 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmNMInitialize: Network heartbeat thresholds are: impending reconfig 30000 ms, reconfig start (misscount) 60000 ms
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.669 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmDiskStateChange: state from 1 to 2 disk (0//ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:06.669 [84294560] >TRACE: clssnmvDPT: spawned for disk 0 (/ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:08.755 [84294560] >TRACE: clssnmDiskStateChange: state from 2 to 4 disk (0//ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:08.821 [113339296] >TRACE: clssnmvKillBlockThread: spawned for disk 0 (/ocfs/voting) initial sleep interval (1000)ms
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:08.889 [3086919360] >TRACE: clssnmFatalInit: fatal mode enabled
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:08.999 [94784416] >TRACE: clssnmClusterListener: Spawned
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.002 [94784416] >TRACE: clssnmClusterListener: Listening on (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=x102-priv)(PORT=49895))
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.002 [94784416] >TRACE: clssnmconnect: connecting to node(1), con(0x81bc480), flags 0x0003
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.069 [3083459488] >TRACE: clssgmclientlsnr: Spawned
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [113339296] >ERROR: clssnmvDiskKillCheck: voting disk corrupted (0x00000000,0x00000000) (0//ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [113339296] >TRACE: clssnmDiskStateChange: state from 4 to 3 disk (0//ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [130767776] >TRACE: clssnmDiskPMT: disk offline (0//ocfs/voting)
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [130767776] >ERROR: clssnmDiskPMT: Aborting, 1 of 1 voting disks unavailable
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [130767776] >ERROR: ###################################
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [130767776] >ERROR: clssscExit: CSSD aborting
[    CSSD]2010-01-07 15:53:09.072 [130767776] >ERROR: ###################################
[    CSSD]--- DUMP GROCK STATE DB ---
I tried to recreate my voting disk like this:
$CRS_HOME/bin/crsctl add css votedisk /ocfs/voting1 -force
$CRS_HOME/bin/crsctl delete css votedisk /ocfs/voting -force
$CRS_HOME/bin/crsctl add css votedisk /ocfs/voting -force
$CRS_HOME/bin/crsctl delete css votedisk /ocfs/voting1 -force
Then run root102.sh again but still got the same error message about "voting disk corrupted".
I was totally confused and don't know how to fix it.
Please, any suggestion would be appreciated.

Hello,
Did u try restore the OCR?
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/rac.102/b14197/votocr.htm#i1012456
The steps to apply RAC patch were followed correctly?
See a patchset roadmap at http://mufalani.blogspot.com/2009/06/applying-10204-patch-on-rac-systems.html
Best Regards,
Rodrigo Mufalani
http://www.mrdba.com.br/mufalani

Recovery scenario - Voting disk does not match with the cluster guid

Hi all,
Think of you can not start your guest VMs just because it has a corrupted system.img root image. And assume it contains 5 physical disk( which are all created by the RAC template) hence ASM on them.
What is the simplest recovery scneario of the guest vms (RAC)?
Can it be a feasible scenario for recover of the availablity? (Assume both of the RAC system images are corrupted and we prefer not a system level recovery rather than backup / restore)
1. Create 2 RAC instances using the same networking and hostname details as the ones that are corrupted. - Use 5 different new disks.
2 Shutdown the newly created instances. Drop the disks from the newly created instances using VM manager.
3. Add the old disks whose system image is failing to be recoverd but ASM disks are still in use (from the newly created instances using VM manager.) to the newly created instances.
4. Open the newly created instances
Can we expect the ASM and CRS could be initialized and be opened without a problem?
When I try this scenario I get the folllowing error from the cssd/crsd .
- Cluster guid 9112ddc0824fefd5ff2b7f9f7be8f048 found in voting disk does not match with the cluster guid a3eec66a2854ff0bffe784260856f92a obtained from the GPnP profile.
- Found 0 configured voting files but 1 voting files are required, terminating to ensure data integrity.
What could be the simplest way of recovery of a virtual machine that has healthy ASM disks but corrupted system image?
Thank you

Hi,
you have a similar problem, when trying to clone databases with 11.2.
The problem is that a cluster is uniquely identified, and this information is hold in the OCR and the Voting disks. So exactly these 2 are not to be cloned.
To achieve what you want, simply setup your system in that way, that you have a separate diskgroup for OCR and Voting (and ASM spfile), which is not to be restored in this case of szeanrio.
Only all database files in ASM will then be exchanged later.
Then what you want can be achieved.
However I am not sure that the RAC templates have the option to install OCR and Voting into a separated diskgroup.
Regards
Sebastian

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Why will a 2 disk, 1 column, 2-way mirrored space work fine outside of a cluster? Yet, when I want to use clustered storage spaces I need a minimum of 3 physical disks for a 2-way mirrored space? Killing me...
I mean if I add 2 additional disks and do a 4 disk, 2 column, 2-way mirrored space it's ok. What would be the purpose of using 3 disks as a minimum?
Thanks,
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Add/Remove Raw disk to a Solaris 11 Container

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I need to present the raw disks to containers so that Oracle ASM can be used on the containers. I have added the raw disks but not able to delete the extra disk. Can somebody help on this. Thanks in Advance.

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end
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Hi All,
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not understand your question, find command is used to look for files, not disks.
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sudo chmod 644 System/Library/Extensions/IOPCIFamily.kext/.* && sudo touch System/Library/Extensions
8.Finally, close the Terminal window and restart the computer.
9.Once rebooted, you are free to continue as normal and this problem will not return.
Alternate Solution:
1.If you've seen the dialog box described above, and have not yet rebooted, go to your "Applications -> Utilities" folder and double click "Terminal".
2.Next, type the following command into your Terminal prompt and press the Return key on your keyboard.
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*Note: If prompted with the warning below, please enter your user account password and hit the Return key to continue. (Administrator account required)
"WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password: "
3.Once complete, you are free to close the Terminal window and continue as normal. The problem will be fixed and will not return.
Thank you again for your continued patience in this matter and please contact us directly at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.
-The iZotope Team

I bought mountain lion for my macbook pro and I'm trying to install it and it says there was an error and I need to boot up but I don't have any other start up disks to boot up with. Are there any suggestions of how I could get my computer started?

I bought mountain lion for my macbook pro and I'm trying to install it and it says there was an error and I need to boot up but I don't have any other start up disks to boot up with. Are there any suggestions of how I could get my computer started?

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Hi,
I have installed Windows XP Professional with SP2 on my laptop Dell Inspiron 6400 (Intel Core 2 Duo). I created partition as below,
C: 25GB (Primary : Active) Installed XP
D: 15GB (Primary) - Tried to install Solaris here
F: 10GB (Primary)
G: 20 GB (Logical)
H: 20 GB (Logical)
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2. Next, I tried with Solaris Express Developer edition DVD. I was able to proceed until "Install" option. After clicking "Install" button, it reported some account name(no account name found) setting problem and quitted from installation. It asked to remove the DVD manually. But I was not able to eject it, got stuck. I switched off it and removed DVD.
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Please let me know how to boot up Win Xp and install Solaris with it.

with my little experience i find solaris 10 isn't able to install on sata hdd but with solaris express edition 5.11 i was able to install it on my lap top toshiba tecra and now i can boot with xp sp2 and solaris i hope this answer your question .

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