From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 15:50:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F9A16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:50:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from parrot.aev.net (host29-15.pool8174.interbusiness.it [81.74.15.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1062143D5D for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:50:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-125-24.37-151.net24.it [151.37.24.125]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2CG8LTt058413 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:08:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from netfence.it (xanatar.ventu [10.1.2.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.ventu (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2CFn6xh055105 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:49:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <42331009.6050804@netfence.it> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:51:37 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: it,en,fr,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Subject: gmirror rebuilds on every reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:50:29 -0000 As per subject: I have a 5.3 box with two SATA drives and I using gmirror to achieve RAID 1. The problem is it started rebuilding the array *on every boot*. From the logs: Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: ad4: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: ad6: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150 Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=2197339280). Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad4 detected. Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6 detected. Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6 activated. Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched. Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad4. fdisk /dev/ad4 (same for /dev/ad6 or /dev/mirror/gm0) gives: ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=158816 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=158816 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 160071597 (78159 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 747/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: bsdlabel /dev/mirror/gm0s1: # /dev/mirror/gm0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 4194304 1048592 swap c: 160071597 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edi t d: 41943040 5242896 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 (Yes, I left some space unused.) Finally /etc/fstab: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/mirror/gm0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/mirror/gm0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/mirror/gm0s1d /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 And I have swapoff="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. I cannot think of any reason this might happen, but I'd appreciate any hint to avoid that. bye & Thanks av.