Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:01:57 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r189625 - head/sys/geom/eli Message-ID: <20090310180157.GA4663@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <20090310171948.1ac51696@fabiankeil.de> References: <200903101523.n2AFNhs1065867@svn.freebsd.org> <20090310171948.1ac51696@fabiankeil.de>
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:19:48PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Log: > > When attaching a geli on boot make sure that it is detached > > upon last close. (needed for a gmirror to properly shutdown > > upon reboot when a geli is on top the gmirror) > > > > Detach-on-last-close is known to cause panics when > scrubbing at least some ZFS pools: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/117158 > > Quoting the PR: > |Quoting Pawel Jakub Dawidek's response to my initial report: > ||GELI's detach-on-last-close mechanism is a general purpose mechanism, it > ||may not work correctly with ZFS, because ZFS sometimes closes and reopen > ||providers, which will make GELI to detach. In other words you shouldn't > ||configure detach-on-last-close for ZFS components. > Grr. So we should make it tuneable. How about being able to set this flag with the geli command, like the G_ELI_FLAG_BOOT flag. -Guido
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