Thanks much to all those who've responded.
Summary:
The disk can be replaced online (w/o shutdown) and volrecover will start
automatically after initializing the disk.
Apologies for the late summary.
Bala S
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sathiamoorthy Balasubramaniyan (ext_TCS)
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 3:02 PM
> To: Tru64 List (E-mail)
> Subject: Changing the bad disk of LSM
>
> Hi,
> A question on replacing a defect disk.
>
> Operating System: OSF 4.0F
>
> I have LSM in system disk. One of the disks holding the mirrored volume is
> defective.
> There are two plexes in that volume and one is disabled due to this.
>
> I have the procedure to replace the disk, but I want to know few things:
>
> 1. Can I do this online, when system is using that domain ?
> or
> Should I need to deactivate and unmount the filesystem of the advfs
> domain associated with this disk group and volume.
>
> 2. After performing the task of removing the failed disk from the disk
> group, initializing and adding the new disk, I need to run volrecover
> command to resynchronize the disk.
> My question is:
> Will advfs domain be available after adding the disk so users can start
> accessing the file system while volrecover runs in the background.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Regards,
>
>
> Balasubramaniyan Sathiamoorthy
> Tata Consultancy Services Deutschland Gmbh
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