From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 17:02:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C696D16A4CE; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:02:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com (smtp-gw-cl-c.dmv.com [216.240.97.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F6943D46; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) Received: from lanshark.dmv.com (lanshark.dmv.com [216.240.97.46]) i8KH2a1P045368; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:02:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sven@dmv.com) From: Sven Willenberger To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek 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> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:01:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1095699708.20073.23.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to autostart geom_stripe? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:02:04 -0000 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