From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 05:25:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4225C1065689 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FE18FC13 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KFV00HUT4BOUUD0@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:55:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n224t0VX000489; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:55:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:55:00 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <49AB66A4.4030509@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090228) Subject: gmirror does not initialize properally X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:25:06 -0000 I have started the procedure for mirroring drives and everything works fine upto its first mount attempt (read only root... premounted before /etc/rc runs) and then sees no slices... what I mean is /dev/mirror/gm0Sxy never appears in the ls of /dev/mirror [bur /dev/mirror/gm0 does _exist_).... here is the output from kldstat: Id Refs Address Size Name 1 19 0xc0400000 94f054 kernel 2 1 0xc0d50000 84c4 linprocfs.ko 3 3 0xc0d59000 27744 linux.ko 4 1 0xc0d81000 161c8 geom_mirror.ko 5 1 0xc0d98000 15484 snd_hda.ko 6 2 0xc0dae000 4938c sound.ko 7 1 0xc0df8000 23e4 accf_http.ko 8 1 0xc0dfb000 75aa64 nvidia.ko 9 1 0xc1556000 68304 acpi.ko