From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 12:49:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6EE1065679 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:49:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrea@ragedrecords.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2B08FC1C for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so7794888iwn.13 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:49:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.30.76 with SMTP id t12mr6767570ibc.161.1286972705776; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.19.65 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:25:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [217.133.83.163] Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: Andrea Brancatelli To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: GEOM_Journal - "Taste"-order X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:49:32 -0000 Hello everybody. I'm facing a funny issue with GEOM_Journal and an ASUS MB with integrated Raid. For reason I cannot clearly understand, after creating an hardware mirror, the "standard" devices (ad0 and ad4 if I can remember correctly) didn't "disappear" and only a new device, ar0 appeared, representing the HW Mirror. I then geom_journaled a partition inside ar0, inserted geom_journal_load="YES" in the usual places but when the machine booted geom_journal found the journaling on ad0 instead of ar0 -- and actually started it! Obviously fstab was referring to ar0 and thus the boot stopped. I tried some different approaches but none worked. The only convenient way to make everything work was to disable geom_journal_load and have a script run in the end of the boot doing a gjournal load and a manual mount -- but this obviously sucks. I tried searching for a way to "disable" tasting for ad0 or ad4 or change the order of the devices so that ar0 would be tasted first, but could not find anything related. Does anyone have any suggestion?