From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 08:43:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500A516A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:43:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 611E743D58 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 17656 invoked by uid 65534); 11 Oct 2004 08:43:35 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) (62.245.232.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 11 Oct 2004 10:43:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:43:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041010110159.GA91160@pcs28.suedfactoring.de> <200410110026.03777.4711@chello.at> <20041011083928.GA2440@pcs28.suedfactoring.de> In-Reply-To: <20041011083928.GA2440@pcs28.suedfactoring.de> X-OS: FreeBSD X-Birthday: 10/06/72 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Tel: +49 89 18947781 X-CelPhone: +49 173 9967781 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart14071023.CT4XvDcmZi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410111043.34062.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> cc: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> cc: Chris Elsworth Subject: Re: RAID1 with gmirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:43:37 -0000 --nextPart14071023.CT4XvDcmZi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 10:39 schrieb Axel S. Gruner: > Hi. > > Christian Hiris schrieb am Monday, den 11. October 2004: > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Christian Hiris wrote: > > > > # gmirror configure -v -b load mirror0 ad0 > > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > label? > > > > Yes, that should read "label" - sorry! > > I tried it with "label" in single user mode, but i do not get it work. > The error message is: "too few paramaters". > > > An example in 'man gmirror' describes how to set up a gmirror array on a > > disk with valid data. It uses 'gmirror lable' w/o extra labeling. I > > understand it the way that the term 'valid data' means 'existing > > (non-gmirror-)data on an already (before-gmirror-)labeled disk'. Maybe = my > > understanding is wrong and you gave me the hint to the reason why my > > mirrors break on startup. I will do some testing on this. > > I also understand it that way. The problem is, or seems to be, "gmirror > label -v -b load mirror0 da0" does not work for me on a mounted device. You can set kern.geom.debugflags to 16. Then the command should succeed but= no=20 guarantee that you shoot yourself into the foot! =2DHarry > If i use another disk, da2 and da3, umount them, gmirror labeling will > work. > So, in my understanding, i have to boot from another bootable device, > and set up gmirror on da0 (where / is sitting an waiting to get > mirrored) and da1 while these devices are not mounted. > > Axel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart14071023.CT4XvDcmZi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBake1Bylq0S4AzzwRAh2VAJ92yWcggFxvNaIQclJ2eNmkf1eEegCfaN8r 8487ahQZsMOwSUZ/OMR460Q= =yG1n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart14071023.CT4XvDcmZi--