Degarded Swap Mirror

[ude6]

Hi all,
I replaced 2 Drives via the GUI using the "replace" functionality in FreeNAS-11.1-U6.
I then pulled the replaced drives.
Now I am receiving critical errors due to missing swap volumes. This remains after a reboot.

Code:

gmirror status
		Name	Status  Components
mirror/swap0  COMPLETE  da18p1 (ACTIVE)
						da17p1 (ACTIVE)
mirror/swap1  COMPLETE  da16p1 (ACTIVE)
						da15p1 (ACTIVE)
mirror/swap2  DEGRADED  da13p1 (ACTIVE)
mirror/swap3  COMPLETE  da12p1 (ACTIVE)
						da11p1 (ACTIVE)
mirror/swap4  DEGRADED  da10p1 (ACTIVE)

Can I mannually force the gmirror to other drives? There are "unused" swap partitions available. (16 drives in the system)

Thanks!

ude6

 

[Chris Moore]

You might be able to use the command gmirror insert swap2 da14p1, for example. Just substitute 14 for a valid number in your pool.

Same for swap4

 

[ude6]

ok...I tried to reboot again.
And ... behold...the 2nd (not the first!?) reboot did the trick!

Thanks anyway for the very quick response!

ude6

 

[Chris Moore]

Normally, swap mirrors are established during the boot process. It is unusual that you would need to reboot twice.

 

[ude6]

anyway. it works now. it might be that the very first reboot was due to an issue with sas2ircu...

 

[ude6]

I ended up in the same situaltion today after losing and hot-swapping another drive.
The "gmirror insert swap2 da14p1" works but needs to be preceeded by a "gmirror forget swap2" so
that old references are indeed discarded. Only then can a new drive be added.