From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 22:00:47 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 CA5E016A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F5F43D1F for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scode@scode-whitestar.mine.nu) Received: from scode-whitestar.mine.nu ([83.226.138.147] [83.226.138.147]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP <20050314220045.HLFG4482.mxfep02.bredband.com@scode-whitestar.mine.nu>; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:00:45 +0100 Received: by scode-whitestar.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8B68F17B920; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:07:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:07:22 +0100 From: Peter Schuller To: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <20050314220720.GA38926@scode-whitestar.mine.nu> References: <42331009.6050804@netfence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42331009.6050804@netfence.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror rebuilds on every reboot 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: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:00:47 -0000 > As per subject: I have a 5.3 box with two SATA drives and I using > gmirror to achieve RAID 1. > The problem is it started rebuilding the array *on every boot*. ... > I cannot think of any reason this might happen, but I'd appreciate any > hint to avoid that. First thing I'd check is the shutdown sequence. I dunno if this is machine you're physically in front of, but if you are, look for kernel output at the end of the shutdown sequence. The fact that it is rebuilding is usually indicative of an unclean shutdown. If it happens all the time it might be that there is some problem preventing buffers from being flushed properly and/or the gmirror to shutdown correctly. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org