From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 31 10:11:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C4016A4DA for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5B143D4C for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 18BEA5139A; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:11:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACB451339; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:11:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:10:33 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: "R. B. Riddick" Message-ID: <20060731101033.GA842@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060731085125.49554.qmail@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060731085125.49554.qmail@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: Brent Hostetler , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror/gconcat: mkdir causes system reboot 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: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:11:10 -0000 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:51:25AM -0700, R. B. Riddick wrote: > --- Brent Hostetler wrote: > > These errors repeated for about 3meg log file of errors. > > > Hmm... Maybe u mounted ur file system unclean somewhen (e. g. by pressing > CTRL+C during the boot process) and then the errors escalated cataclysmic= ally? > :-) >=20 > Or maybe ur gmirror's where out of sync due to some strange administrative > trick or due to a system crash during synchronization (so that just one h= alf of > the mirror had the new data, while it stayed unmentioned, that the other = half > had still the old data (this is something fsck could miss, when it just r= eads > the new/good half of the mirror (e. g. because those discs r faster or be= cause > of a coincidence))). Gmirror protects against such situations - on power loss or system crash it will resynchronize mirrors. I've heard of problems with growfs(8). Another option is incorrect addition of the new disk to gconcat device. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEzdcZForvXbEpPzQRAq6qAJ0WVq6fLVFbYxse5pUcVMn/P4XO0ACgiEa8 01x8TC4vl3QQs7nYFMqziGQ= =OJy/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--