down chunks

Dear Calvin, About your question below. I have had a similar thing happen when a chunk was marked as down due to the UNIX file table overflowing. I was able to change the chunk status using dd and writing over the reserved pages. Hope this helps. But - this should only be done if you know that there is no damage to the disk if the disk is actually damaged then you need to restore etc. Jason (RSWA). C>Just to confirm this, is restoring from archive the only way to bring the down C>chunk back up? How I wish the engine could just check the chunk when it starts C>up, then it will find the the chunk is in fact online again. On Thu, 8 Jun 95 8:36:42 MDT Jack Parker wrote: >> >> hi INFORMIX'ers >> >> what do U have 2 do when U come in the monrning and found >> the not mirrored chunk is down...!!! > >Go home and get back into bed. :-) Cute. And if it happens when we come back from lunch, I suggest we go out and have a heavy desert then. 8) (really big smile) I've learned, I recently have to skip dinner only to find out that there is nothing I can do accept to restore from archive. > >Do you have some details as to why its down? Look in the online log. >Check the disk itself, why is it down? If its just permissions then fix >them. If the drive itself is bad then swap it. Once all that is out of the >way then restore from backup and roll any logs forward. See the Online >Admin guide for more details. >