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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:16:01 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Device gm0 destroyed?
Message-ID:  <45D416C1.7090909@skoberne.net>

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Hello,

I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system with ATA disk drives. I have created a mirror
using these commands:

# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0
# <modified /etc/fstab>
# shutdown -r now
# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad2

After a year, one of the disk failed. When it failed, the kernel crashed
(some error with gmirror, I couldn't write it down). After the removal of
the broken disk drive, after reboot, I get this:

Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: ad0: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080P0/YAR41BW0> [158816/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=3252783474).
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad0 detected.
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Force device gm0 start due to timeout.
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 destroyed.
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: cd0: <TEAC CD-552E 1.00> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: setrootbyname failed
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: Root mount failed: 6
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel:
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: Manual root filesystem specification:
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: eg. ufs:da0s1a
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: ?                  List valid disk boot devices
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: <empty line>       Abort manual input
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel:
Feb 13 17:40:49 Router kernel: mountroot>

If I boot with the broken drive, the kernel crashes at boot time again. Okay, let's
say I undestand that, it's a bug somewhere in the gmirror code since 5.3 is not
the freshest BSD anymore.

So my question is: why is "Device gm0 destroyed."? I had to mount the filesystems
using /dev/ad0 drive again, which is not what I really want if one of the drives
dies - I think this way gmirror's RAID-1 fails to provide one of its basic
functionalities - a working system when one of the drives fails.

Thanks for your help,
Nejc

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