veritas volume resync

[Alex Green]

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could explain to me why everytime I copy a high volume of data to a veritas software RAID5, upon reboot it requites a volume resync and then volume rebuild.

I takes forever and I can't believe it should be like this.

Thanks in advance

[harry d brown jr]

Alex,

What are you using to copy the data?


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harry

[John Carr_2]

Hi

if you are using "reboot" command instead of "shutdown" I would expect something nasty like this to occur.

are you using reboot ?

cheers
John.

[harry d brown jr]

Alex,

With veritas, don't you have to shutdown the raid5 manager gracefully? It might be that the raid5 manager is getting hammered leaving the "volumes" in an unknown state, hence the "rebuild".

Another thing, What OS are you using???


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harry

[Alex Green]

hi,

yes i am using reboot... should i use shutdown instead?

i'm using 11i with the veritas from the September 2001 CD 1.

[John Carr_2]

Alex

reboot command simply reboots the system, shutdown does a gracefull controlled shutdown running scripts to tidy every thing up and close processes in the right order.

Checkout what harry says it may be a script which is run by shutdown or needs doing manually.

always use " /etc/shutdown -ry now " unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise.

good luck
John.