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On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:41:33PM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> AFIK, geom_* stuff works by magic: the module "tastes"
> the last sectors of the disk, & then tries its damnedest to
> attach it to an appropriate thingy (concat, stripe, label,
> whatnot) based on the metadata.
> 
> It looks like it's finding the geom metadata twice & trying
> to attach the same disk(s) to the geom_concat twice, &
> failing the second time.

yeah - might be significant that this started (on another machine) after
the upgrade from 9.2 to 10-R. In any case, loading the module via
loader.conf will work. It's just that it used to work by compiling it
into the kernel.

cheers,
-- 
John