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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:05:05 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ggate failures.
Message-ID:  <20050411160505.GO837@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <16984.18159.732608.234243@canoe.dclg.ca>
References:  <16984.18159.732608.234243@canoe.dclg.ca>

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On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:19:43PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
+> I have two systems, each with 4 300 gig SATA disks.  Let's call them
+> m0 and m1.  M1 exports it's disks with ggated ... on two private GigE
+> networks.  M0, on those same two GigE networks, imports them with
+> ggatec.  M0, then does the following:
+>=20
+> Mirror	 Disks
+> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D	 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
+> s0	 ggate0 da0s1g
+> s1	 ggate1 da1s1g
+> s2	 ggate2 da2s1g
+> s3	 ggate3 da3s1g
+>=20
+> And then:
+>=20
+> concat	Disks
+> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D	=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
+> v0	s0 s1 s2 s3
+>=20
+> (so v0 is a concatination of 4 mirrors that consist of a local and
+> remote disk, each)
+>=20
+> Now... This all works, and we create a filesystem on v0.  The problem
+> arises that whenever a lot of activity occurs on v0 (untaring a copy
+> of /usr is sufficient), the ggate links break down.  An example
+> message from the dmesg:
+>=20
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=3D5). ggate2[WRITE(offset=3D259891840=
000, length=3D8192)]
+>=20
+> Now... I don't know a lot about ggate, but this appears trivial to
+> trigger.  Has anyone tried similar configurations and is there any
+> wisdom about ggate configurations?

Set kern.geom.gate.debug to 1 and send output which is generated on
failures.

I've much improved ggate in perforce, but it needs some polishing still...

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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