From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 11:05:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547E016A4CE; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:05:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A448743D3F; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 2F07EAC956; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:04:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:04:56 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: David Gilbert Message-ID: <20041221110456.GB787@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <16839.40367.2187.545337@canoe.dclg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16839.40367.2187.545337@canoe.dclg.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Odd geom behaviour. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:05:00 -0000 --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:51:11PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: Content-Description: message body text +> I have a set of 12 disks. 2x9G and 10x4.5G. I have a setup whereby I +> run a gmirror on each pair of disks and then a gconcat on the +> mirrors. Attached is a copy of the gmirror and gconcat lists. +>=20 +> Now... I "shutdown -r" this machine (which happens to be an alpha) and +> it shuts down happily. However, _every_ time it reboots, it wishes to +> rebuild the mirrors: +>=20 +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1 created (id=3D4055141955). +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da1 detected. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da2 detected. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider da2 activated. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: provider mirror/m1 launched. +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device m1: rebuilding provider da1. +>=20 +> (x5 more for the other mirrors). Now this isn't particularly bad, I +> suppose, except that the machine is occupied for some number of +> minutes after boot with this activity. No fsck ... the filesystem is +> happy. +>=20 +> The machine is available for testing should someone want to look at +> it. In fact, the machine is part of my "retrocluster" of hardware +> running FreeBSD and NetBSD (if someone needs hardware with serial +> consoles to debug, this is the purpose of the retrocluster). +>=20 +> Anyways... ideas? +>=20 +> (note that in these files, the mirrors are still rebuilding) What system version are you using? If this is 5.3 you should place: swapoff=3D"YES" to your /etc/rc.conf and use shutdown(8) command to reboot/turn off your machine. This is fixed in HEAD in much more clean way already. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFByANYForvXbEpPzQRAhMHAKCNL9dIagIXzfDl/MIBogAo/95eCwCeP6tC /lDz5Xi8dKyQKyMVOp9bOXs= =0rgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML--