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Date:      Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:36:43 +0100
From:      Chris Hodgins <christopher.hodgins@gmail.com>
To:        Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gmirror, sparc and SCSI problems
Message-ID:  <63c3899e05070909363077ca9c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050708233854.GA64117@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
References:  <63c3899e05070807487e0891de@mail.gmail.com> <20050708233854.GA64117@ratchet.nebcorp.com>

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On 7/9/05, Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Chris Hodgins wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Experiencing a few difficulties setting up raid mirroring across two
> > SCSI disks on a sparc based server.  Disk da0 contains a working and
> > recent install of FreeBSD 5-4 RELEASE and da1 is blank.  We have been
> > following the guidance given in the first part of
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ but have hit numerous problems.
>=20
> Chris,
>=20
> These instructions are useful if you don't want to boot into recovery
> console to set things up offline.  You can save a lot of fancy footwork
> if you have physical access and a CD-ROM, and don't mind about 15
> minutes of downtime.  My crib sheet is at
> http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ .
>=20
> If it does work for you, plesae let me know.  I'd be plased to hear that
> it can handle Sparc. :)
>=20
> Sincerely,
> -danny
>=20

Danny,

Thanks for the link.  This was actually the first link we tried to get
working and after it failed to work we followed the link on the page
to http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/.

Everything worked fine until we arrived at this step below. =20
# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a /mnt

It seems that gmirror does not give us any partitions.  A listing of
the mirror directory shows only the gm0 node even though da0 is
partitioned.  When mounting the mirror it seems that /dev/mirror/gm0
only represents the root partition.  How can we get the mirror to
recognise the other partitions?

Thanks
Chris



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