From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 23:02:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F55C16A4CF for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from parrot.aev.net (host29-15.pool8174.interbusiness.it [81.74.15.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AD243D48 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:02:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-205-23.37-151.net24.it [151.37.23.205]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3JN5XZ6066901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:05:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from netfence.it (xanatar.ventu [10.1.2.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.ventu (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3JN281Z029275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:02:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Message-ID: <42659C37.4000900@netfence.it> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:03:03 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli Organization: NetFence User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: it,en,fr,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050419120110.39B3216A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> <1113925642.80629.15.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <1113925642.80629.15.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 192.168.2.2 Subject: Re: gmirror losing drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:02:50 -0000 Paul Mather wrote: > Do you have swap on your geom_mirror? Yes. > In earlier versions of > geom_mirror, even a clean shutdown would cause a mirror to be marked > degraded if swap was still active. The fix at the time was to amend the > stop_cmd in /etc/rc.d/swap1 to do an explicit "swapoff -a" (or similar). > Later modifications rendered this explicit step unnecessary. Yes, that hit me too (on another machine), but it would render a disk stale, it would not become lost. > I also remember a short window in which I experienced the same problem > of losing a drive/consumer at reboot when a mirror would become degraded > (in my case, due to the TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA problems I was having with > 5.x/6.x). This seemed to go away with a subsequent upgrade. Hmm, this might be it, altough I'm usinc SCIS, so no DMA stuff... > So, if you are planning to upgrade when 5.4-RELEASE rolls around, you > might find that these problems disappear. I am planning to do that as soon as it's released. I hope it will help. bye & Thanks av.