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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:18:20 +1000
From:      Duncan Young <duncan.young@pobox.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs and glabel
Message-ID:  <200807062218.20956.duncan.young@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <200807062143.14016.duncan.young@pobox.com>
References:  <200807062143.14016.duncan.young@pobox.com>

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Forgot to mention, all these messages are a result of vfs.zfs.debug=1, so 
should I assume this is normal behaviour??

The "Cannot open ad2 for writting" occur regardless of the debug setting.

regards

Duncan

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:43:12 pm Duncan Young wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I believe I'm having a few problems with using geom to label disks and then
> use them in zfs.
>
> # zpool status rootzfs
>   pool: rootzfs
>  state: ONLINE
>  scrub: none requested
> config:
>
>         NAME                 STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         rootzfs              ONLINE       0     0     0
>           mirror             ONLINE       0     0     0
>             label/sysdisk_A  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             label/sysdisk_B  ONLINE       0     0     0
>
> errors: No known data errors
>
>
> # glabel status
>             Name  Status  Components
> label/bootdisk_A     N/A  ad0s1a
>     label/swap_A     N/A  ad0s1b
>  label/sysdisk_A     N/A  ad0s1d
> label/bootdisk_B     N/A  ad2s1a
>     label/swap_B     N/A  ad2s1b
>  label/sysdisk_B     N/A  ad2s1d
>
> # gmirror status
>           Name    Status  Components
> mirror/swap_AB  COMPLETE  label/swap_A
>                           label/swap_B
>
> # swapinfo
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/mirror/swap_AB   4194300   158224  4036076     4%
>
> # mount -t ufs
> /dev/label/bootdisk_A on /bootdirA (ufs, local)
> /dev/label/bootdisk_B on /bootdirB (ufs, local)
>
>
> As can be seen I have the boot disk set up with separate /boot partitions
> (independent of each other), mirrored swap and the rest of the root file
> system in zfs.
>
> Currently I am watching the following appearing every second or two in the
> messages file:
> kernel: vdev_geom_detach:177[1]: Closing access to label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_detach:177[1]: Closing access to label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_detach:181[1]: Destroyed consumer to label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_detach:177[1]: Closing access to label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_detach:181[1]: Destroyed consumer to label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_open:371[1]: Found provider by name /dev/label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_attach:116[1]: Attaching to label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_attach:157[1]: Created consumer for label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_open:385[1]: ID match for provider /dev/label/sysdisk_A.
> kernel: vdev_geom_open:371[1]: Found provider by name /dev/label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_attach:116[1]: Attaching to label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_attach:157[1]: Created consumer for label/sysdisk_B.
> kernel: vdev_geom_open:385[1]: ID match for provider /dev/label/sysdisk_B.
>
> much of the time only one disk is "lost" at a time.
>
> I also get "kernel: ZFS WARNING: Cannot open ad2 for writting" (also for
> ad0) upon imports etc.
>
> I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-p2  on amd64.
>
> I also have another raidz set of 6 disks, but I don't use labels on them
> and have no messages as a result.
>
> Any suggestions if I should be concerned or not.
>
> I also have periodic lockups (under load) which I believe are zfs related,
> but I have only just set up the serial console and I am waiting to get a
> crash dump.
>
> regards
>
> Duncan





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