K460 / 11.0 / stale extents

[moonchild]

After mirroring the new disk, we found some stale extents.

output below:

root:#
> do
> echo $i
> lvdisplay -v $i |grep -i "stale"
> done

/dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Status available/stale
00019 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 00019 current /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 00019 stale
/dev/vg00/lvol2
/dev/vg00/lvol3
/dev/vg00/lvol4
/dev/vg00/lvol5
/dev/vg00/lvol6
/dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Status available/stale
00000 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 01345 current /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 01452 stale
/dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Status available/stale
00004 /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 01477 current /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 01584 stale
/dev/vg00/swap02

diskinfo comes back fine on both disks
dd comes back fine on c0t4d0 that shows the stale extents.

booting from the mirror disk crashes at activating volume groups.

[moonchild]

dd on c0t6d0 took too long that our maintenance window expired and we had to kill it.

thank you in advance

[Khairy]

i suspect c0t4d0 might have problem. Check

# dmesg
# more /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

And look for "lbolt scsi" errors. If there are, it might indicate the disk is failing soon.

To confirm disk status, check them thru online Diagnostic tools (stm/cstm/xstm). If you don't have this, you can download them from software.hp.com. Look for onlineDiag.

# cstm

View all devices
cstm > map

Eg. disk device at number 20
cstm > sel dev 20
cstm > information; wait
cstm > infolog

Result will be displayed shortly and look for media/write/read errors. If the value is more than 0. Replace the disk.

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