From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 10:01:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F7F16A417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: from web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56CE213C465 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 9838 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Dec 2007 10:01:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Y/EZRkfvbhn/1zDA6zb1VfZdBmqLo+eeWZkzF0geOfiK3jQMJniZq8I/AUNCQB1mpHbz8p0/poGLrw1g3uafBfwP/xUqGv67WVVbYfC1WoTQ4My3LE7EAB/njuD8Y5Pyip0kp2mTZR6f+9oE490VnHxBMzB70Ffkoq9Pe1zhTr8=; X-YMail-OSG: ET.okC0VM1mJhGiVfb5Kq7PIKhhk4Wmbvw5yAsUxpDVYgvyg73CFX4GvKWnKFyhNWiH6EVtYS8b6SWJ86FWdzMIbDiMuOljCHLk6QRRvXiOFlZs2LN38LW4pb2ymjFL8Yx1LP.bRQDTb8w-- Received: from [167.202.221.228] by web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:01:11 PST Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 02:01:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dino Vliet To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <425344.8570.qm@web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: geom gmirror question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:01:12 -0000 Forwarded Message From: "Dino Vliet" CC: zouk@tiscali.nl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: hardware problems?..how to disable geom? Plain Text Attachment [ Scan and Save to Computer ] Hi folks, I have sinned:-( I have (for testing purposes) activated geom for mirroring on my freebsd 6.2 via c3 cpu system. However, I used two different brand IDE harddisks but identical in capacity. I have: ad0: 76319MB at ata0-master UDMA100 ad3: 76319MB at ata1-slave UDMA100 At first everything worked, but lately I have noticed some weird things: 1) In the beginning the gmirror status command was showing the complete status for the components ad0 or ad3 (it was altering I guess due to the round robin thing I choose) However since a few weeks, only the ad0 component shows the complete status (the only thing I did in between was removing the seagate harddisk once to try to go to a pc mall and buy a second one but when I returned I just reattached it (I hadn't switched the pc on though in the mean time so I don't think it's an issue)) 2) I started to have problems building the ports and make buildword 3) bash core dumped on my (I couldn't log in nomaly anymore and had to use csh) 4) now I see that rsyncd, freshclam and clamav are core dumping when the machine boots up: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad3 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad3 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad0 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a pid 896 (rsync), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 928 (clamd), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) pid 934 (freshclam), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) So I want to bring the machine back to its normal state by doing this: a) remove seagate harddisk b) remove the mirror c) see if everything works fine again because I don't want to reinstall (I CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS RIGHT?) The question is, how di I get rid of the mirror? Or is it better to order a new seagate harddisk, get rid of the maxtor harddisk and install the new seagate harddisk in stead of the maxtor one and rebuild the mirror? Thanks for your kind help *********************** Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a situation where the OS resides on one of the two mirrored disks. Can you give me some advice on this? I have three identical seagate harddisks and want to put two in a mirror setup with the OS on it, and use the other as spare drive, in case sonmething goes wrong. Thanks in advanced Dino Vliet --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.