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Q: Issue with ghost volumes

Carbon copy cloner, which had been doing a clone of the xsan volume nightly started to complain that there were multiple dries with the same unique identifier as the source. After looking I find that diskutil list shows multiple instances of the volume. I've restarted the backup system and unmounted and mounted the xsan volume but only went from two phantoms to 3. I haven't been able to shutdown the entire fabric yet because I haven't been able to schedule downtime for the server.

 

Anyone seen this before? Any tricks to resolving this?

 

Here is a portion of the diskutil output:

 

/dev/disk3

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:       Apple_Xsan_Component                        *2.0 TB     disk3

/dev/disk4

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:       Apple_Xsan_Component                        *18.0 TB    disk4

/dev/disk5

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:       Apple_Xsan_Component                        *18.0 TB    disk5

/dev/disk6

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                 Apple_Xsan MyVolume               *36.0 TB    disk6

/dev/disk7

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                 Apple_Xsan MyVolume               *36.0 TB    disk7

/dev/disk8

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                 Apple_Xsan MyVolume               *36.0 TB    disk8

Posted on Mar 12, 2012 1:48 PM

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