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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:01:48 -0400
From:      Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to autostart geom_stripe?
Message-ID:  <1095699708.20073.23.camel@lanshark.dmv.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040920164408.GG88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
References:  <1095693022.20080.9.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20040920154705.GF88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <1095698283.20070.21.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20040920164408.GG88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl>

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On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:44 +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:38:03PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> +> Interestingly, once I applied the patch, and followed the make
> +> instructions you supplied above, the thing actually works (even though
> +> the patch looks like it was designed merely to trap a suspected error).
> +> I am not sure if the physical act of remaking the module from the
> +> modules directory solved the problem or what happened exactly. I will
> +> try a few more reboots and see what happens. 
> 
> This could be an effect of a race which we can have here.
> As I susspect, daX SCSI providers are created with 0 sectorsize. Sectorsize
> is set later, but maybe sometimes before gmirror taste it.
> Few more reboots may confirm my suspicion, yes.
> 
It has survived several reboots now and successfully loaded the stripe
module and mounted the filesystem each time.

Sven



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