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11-24-2009

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metadb errors

Hi All.
Been out of Unix admin work for about 10 years and I just took over a new position...

seeing the 'use metadb to delete databases which are broken message' on reboot. The system comes up but I'm not sure what's on this disk that's failing...

metadb -i shows:

Code:

 
excalibur# metadb -i
        flags           first blk       block count
     a m  pc luo        16              1034            /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3
    M     pc            unknown         unknown         /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s3
     a    pc luo        16              1034            /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3
 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/lvm/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

Can I just delete it and re-attach (metadb -d and -a options)?
Just need some assistance on determining if this necessary or being used at all.

Thanks in advance to all replies.

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mddb.cf

mddb.cf(4)							   File Formats 							mddb.cf(4)

NAME

       mddb.cf - metadevice state database replica locations

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/lvm/mddb.cf

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/lvm/mddb.cf file is created when the metadb(1M) command is invoked. You should never directly edit this file.

       The  file /etc/lvm/mddb.cf is used by the metainit(1M) command to find the locations of the metadevice state databases replicas. The metadb
       command creates the file and updates it each time it is run. Similar information is entered in the /kernel/drv/md.conf file.

       Each metadevice state database replica has a unique entry in the /etc/lvm/mddb.cf file. Each entry contains the driver and minor unit  num-
       bers  associated  with  the block physical device where a replica is stored. Each entry also contains the block number of the master block,
       which contains a list of all other blocks in the replica.

       Entries in the /etc/lvm/mddb.cf file are of the form: driver_name minor_t daddr_t  checksum where driver_name  and  minor_t  represent  the
       device  number  of  the physical device storing this replica. daddr_t is the disk block address. checksum is used to make certain the entry
       has not been corrupted.	A pound sign (#) introduces a comment.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Sample File

       The following example shows a mddb.cf file.

       #metadevice database location file do not hand edit
       #driver minor_t daddr_t device id       checksum
       sd      152     16      id1,sd@SSEAGATE_JDD288110MC9LH/a        -2613

       In the example above, the value for daddr_t indicates that the offset from the start of a given partition is 16 disk blocks from the  start
       of that partition.

FILES

       /etc/lvm/mddb.cf

       /kernel/drv/md.conf

SEE ALSO

       mdmonitord(1M),	metaclear(1M),	metadb(1M),  metadetach(1M),  metahs(1M),  metainit(1M),  metaoffline(1M),  metaonline(1M), metaparam(1M),
       metarecover(1M), metarename(1M), metareplace(1M), metaroot(1M),	metassist(1M),	metaset(1M),  metastat(1M),  metasync(1M),  metattach(1M),
       md.cf(4), md.tab(4), attributes(5), md(7D)

       Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

SunOS 5.10							    8 Aug 2003								mddb.cf(4)