Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:22:09 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Octavian Hornoiu <octavian@hacknslash.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 Message-ID: <20050315112209.GF9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <4236A8F3.8090105@hacknslash.org> References: <4236A8F3.8090105@hacknslash.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:20:51AM -0800, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: +> I have followed the instructions as per the document at +> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to setup my geom mirror using +> FreeBSD 5.3-p5 and two 70 gig SCSI maxtor drives of identical size. I +> have tried both the whole partition gm0 and single slice gm0s1 +> alternatives to mirroring the drives and I have tried both hardcoding +> and without hardcoding and I still get cannot update metadata or cannot +> read metadata or cannot write metadata. The drive with metadata +> problems will change depending with the setup so sometimes da0 works +> fine and da1 is broken or vice versa. There does not seem to be a +> pattern to this. I have worked with vinum many times before and I'm not +> inexperience but I have reached the end of the road with gmirror. I've +> tried 8 times to mirror these disks now with different configurations +> and I've failed every time. I have even alternated the sizes of the +> slices and left room at the end of the drive, at the beginning of the +> drive, etc. Here are the appropriate informational dumps: [...] +> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Feb 23 16:19:57 PST 2005 [...] Could you try with 5-STABLE? +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1 created (id=1445021139). +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 detected. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da1s1 detected. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da1s1 activated. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 (error=1). +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 activated. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider mirror/gm0s1 launched. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 (error=1). +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 disconnected. I remember this problem, but not sure when exaclty it was fixed. The best I can offer is to try 5-STABLE. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCNsVhForvXbEpPzQRAoBHAKDYa9AbGcMpkIVBEYex9JW+LNxeMgCgiX2a 3RgKhzCpqTYVW3bG6+KeGpc= =sOSv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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