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Operating Systems AIX Hd6 is in stale condition Post 302912627 by bakunin on Monday 11th of August 2014 04:58:17 AM
Old 08-11-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mohamed Thamim
the paging lv hd6 is in stale condition
Just for the record: "stale" means you have two (or more) mirror copies of a logical volume of which one (or more) are missing.

Code:
333BD283   0811044814 U S LVDD           Bad block detected with no relocation al
333BD283   0811041114 U S LVDD           Bad block detected with no relocation al
333BD283   0811040614 U S LVDD           Bad block detected with no relocation al
03913B94   0810230414 U H LVDD           HARDWARE DISK BLOCK RELOCATION ACHIEVED

Now, this is most probably the cause of your problems: when a physical disk is being formatted several blocks are set aside as spare. Should one allocated disk block become unreliable for some reason (the magnetic coating becomes defective somehow), then the driver automatically marks this block as "bad" and uses one of the set aside spare blocks instead. The data from the old block are transferred to the new location if this is still possible. This is called "bad block relocation".

Code:
0516-1296 lresynclv: Unable to completely resynchronize volume.
        The logical volume has bad-block relocation policy turned off.
        This may have caused the command to fail.
0516-934 /usr/sbin/syncvg: Unable to synchronize logical volume hd6.

hd6 is your swap and swap is basically memory. You do not want to tinker with the memory while the system is running, so there is a rationale behind this. But because bad block relocation is turned off, the system in turn cannot reloctae the block and therefore you have a stale LV.

My suggestion is to remove the stale mirror from the LV and then remirror it. Once the bad block is not any more part of an LV it will simply be marked as bad and not be used again should the surrounding space be reallocated to another LV.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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lgrp_cookie_stale(3LGRP)				 Locality Group Library Functions				  lgrp_cookie_stale(3LGRP)

NAME
lgrp_cookie_stale - determine whether snapshot of lgroup hierarchy is stale SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file... -llgrp [ library ... ] #include <sys/lgrp_user.h> int lgrp_cookie_stale(lgrp_cookie_t cookie); DESCRIPTION
The lgrp_cookie_stale() function takes a cookie representing the snapshot of the lgroup hierarchy obtained from lgrp_init(3LGRP) and returns whether it is stale. The snapshot can become out-of-date for a number of reasons depending on its view. If the snapshot was taken with LGRP_VIEW_OS, changes in the lgroup hierarchy from dynamic reconfiguration, CPU on/offline, or other conditions can cause the snapshot to become out-of-date. A snapshot taken with LGRP_VIEW_CALLER can be affected by the caller's processor set binding and changes in its processor set itself, as well as changes in the lgroup hierarchy. If the snapshot needs to be updated, lgrp_fini(3LGRP) should be called with the old cookie and lgrp_init() should be called to obtain a new snapshot. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, lgrp_cookie_stale() returns whether the cookie is stale. Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error. ERRORS
The lgrp_cookie_stale() function will fail if: EINVAL The cookie is not valid. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
lgrp_init(3LGRP), lgrp_fini(3LGRP), lgrp_view(3LGRP), liblgrp(3LIB), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 16 Apr 2003 lgrp_cookie_stale(3LGRP)
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