From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 11:22:12 2005 Return-Path: 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 59EF316A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC35743D1D for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:22:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id D7F5AACBF9; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:22:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:22:09 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Octavian Hornoiu Message-ID: <20050315112209.GF9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <4236A8F3.8090105@hacknslash.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IZVch7VEbLLUX8Ok" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4236A8F3.8090105@hacknslash.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:22:12 -0000 --IZVch7VEbLLUX8Ok Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D1445021139). +> 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=3D1). +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 activated. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider mirror/gm0s1 launched. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 (error=3D1). +> 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. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --IZVch7VEbLLUX8Ok Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCNsVhForvXbEpPzQRAoBHAKDYa9AbGcMpkIVBEYex9JW+LNxeMgCgiX2a 3RgKhzCpqTYVW3bG6+KeGpc= =sOSv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IZVch7VEbLLUX8Ok--