From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 2 21:22:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5CC441 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D9B1959 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r52LM5P3042348; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 01:22:05 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 01:22:05 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Warren Block Subject: Re: Corrupt GPT header on disk from twa array - fixable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <7ABBEE71A96E411793E41BD97DA72BCE@multiplay.co.uk> <2943982C-719E-45D0-9B26-43B725738F83@gmail.com> <3659A498-F0EA-4AF3-80EA-40038DCA9CC7@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:22:05 +0400 (MSK) Cc: Kimmo Paasiala , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:22:07 -0000 On Sun, 2 Jun 2013, Warren Block wrote: [snip] > gmirror is good. GPT is also good. The combination is a problem. gmirror > metadata overwrites the backup GPT, so those disks will show "corrupt" also. > For now, the recommended workaround is to just use MBR, which doesn't have any > metadata at the end of the disk. ... or gmirror not whole disks, but GPT partitions (as OP does, as far as I can tell from gmirror dmesg reports) -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------