From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 07:43:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6BB1065675 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corsmith@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71F18FC15 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so4310557bwz.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:43:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Z0kBq2Aam7maVI9nl2Tr3hSG5h5wRrFZKPDE3A3/+aU=; b=VhHuwgvuT84l65h0uw37LGUuVaTAEWNPjpsVc5EvUSczJfAwHnmulswSB5FnV6L9DV Ou6R0VlcBnz9y/8Ebo2lLZ7KNoQ5E75LUN+1TZxDYiQFW3skfGwOcPniS8u/qNF5OiqF goVKq6mvcjKxv9kv2tGf7KrTZPJR+lhZDq4VI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=L4GdtZFxS3KtZN2739ZnrP4cb3eBYzPAUmiN/LgskAkcm2XEfmogGwPL1bBOk9ojdI D9pqi/bSLLL4yNGCwd4Tw8KSkQFYanlwFEbTq9LEDFTOHGhA3kOqP5MY0I3ZMykdpyFE IFRxneiysqjk3sCeUGRpng1xeH2Md9ORqKzVk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.128.130 with SMTP id k2mr5377767bks.159.1280301473914; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.163.17 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:17:53 -0400 Message-ID: From: Corey Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: gmultipath woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:43:57 -0000 Has anyone tried gmultipath under 8.1-RELEASE/amd64 yet? This is my first attempt at multipathing so it is possible I'm doing something wrong but anyways: # uname -a FreeBSD host 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # dmesg | egrep '^(isp|da1|da2)' isp0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xdf4f8000-0xdf4fbfff irq 38 at device 0.0 on pci6 isp1: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xdf4fc000-0xdf4fffff irq 45 at device 0.1 on pci6 da1 at isp0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da1: 400.000MB/s transfers da1: Command Queueing enabled da1: 2097152MB (4294967296 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 267349C) da2 at isp1 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da2: 400.000MB/s transfers da2: Command Queueing enabled da2: 2097152MB (4294967296 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 267349C) # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass1,ses0) at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da1) at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass3,da2) # camcontrol inquiry da1 -S 870405180007 # camcontrol inquiry da2 -S 870405180007 # gmultipath label -v FRED /dev/da1 /dev/da2 gmultipath: Unknown verb add # gmultipath status Name Status Components multipath/FRED N/A da1 # gmultipath list Geom name: FRED Providers: 1. Name: multipath/FRED Mediasize: 2199023255040 (2.0T) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: da1 Mediasize: 2199023255552 (2.0T) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 ------ EOT ------ I'm wondering what is going on with the "Unknown verb add" and why is it only listing da1 in the components? Does the disk need to be in a particular state (unpartitioned, glabel, etc...) or does it not matter? -Corey Smith