Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:40:42 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom mirror now rebuilding on every reboot? Message-ID: <CAFPOs6oB8P-Nt-9zpRkh6nXystuOJNVb6a=-DhjDjF4YWxLYdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vonowC90u3ikh-zVXXEJXvNOziE=542TtBgXB2VUu0%2BA@mail.gmail.com> References: <501D52AD.4010105@protected-networks.net> <CAFPOs6pPB1uLXALPwkVwFKyOLCw3%2Bx1vwW%2BCry9eBW7g04jy7w@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wTt295u0f_hewbKPxo63uDjtFL-9G3Gy_5yiur=7Nd4iQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFPOs6potRoQB4ShjyspAC_n%2BzbaG0RYE%2Bf7c%2B8X_TzpcLzD4w@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1vonowC90u3ikh-zVXXEJXvNOziE=542TtBgXB2VUu0%2BA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Maksim Yevmenkin > <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Maksim Yevmenkin >>> <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Michael, >>>> >>>>> Something in -current and recently MFC'd to -stable is causing all of my >>>>> gmirror drives to rebuild on reboot :-( >>>>> >>>>> Being remote and these being production machines, I suspect SVN r237929 >>>>> and r237930 in -current and SVN r238500 to -stable but haven't yet been >>>>> able to prove it. >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone else seeing this? >>>> >>>> yes, i've seem something similar only much, much worse. one of our >>>> production systems completely kept loosing its gmirror volumes on >>>> every reboot. it looked like gmirror metadata were completely >>>> corrupted. rebuilding mirrors and reverting back to previous kernel >>>> seemed to work. someone else is tracking it down. >>> >>> Is this is in 9.1 -PRERELEASE, -RELEASE (or whatever the official >>> label is...)? If so, it seems like this would be a ship blocker. >> >> sorry. its releng_9/9-stable. gmirrors are on two ssds. we use gpt and >> gmirror individual partitions, not entire disks. > > I may well be confused, but I don't understand how you can use GPT for > a single partition. Looks to me like a disk is GPT or legacy. > Declaring which is the first command when setting up a new disk. i'm sorry, to make it (hopefully) clear, we are using gpt partitioning scheme (as opposed to mbr partitioning scheme), and then use gmirror on individual partitions, i.e. we gimirror /dev/ada0p1 and /dev/ada1p1 and not /dev/ada0 and /dev/ada1. thanks max
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