From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 10:55:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DD010656C0 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344E28FC14 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6LT3-0000iV-V7 for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:55:25 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:55:25 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:55:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:55:10 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100518 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Subject: Re: GEOM_Journal - "Taste"-order X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:55:29 -0000 On 10/13/10 14:25, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm facing a funny issue with GEOM_Journal and an ASUS MB with integrated > Raid. > > For reason I cannot clearly understand, after creating an hardware mirror, > the "standard" devices (ad0 and ad4 if I can remember correctly) didn't > "disappear" and only a new device, ar0 appeared, representing the HW Mirror. > > I then geom_journaled a partition inside ar0, inserted > geom_journal_load="YES" in the usual places but when the machine booted > geom_journal found the journaling on ad0 instead of ar0 -- and actually > started it! > > Obviously fstab was referring to ar0 and thus the boot stopped. > > I tried some different approaches but none worked. The only convenient way Have you tried using "-h" argument to "gjournal label"? (you will need to create the gjournal on the ar0 device)