From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 07:53:28 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 897F216A4D0; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:53:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885C843D2F; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:53:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8L7r6QD036635; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:53:06 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost)i8L7r6rm036634; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:53:06 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jhay) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:53:06 +0200 From: John Hay To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Message-ID: <20040921075306.GA35481@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20040920170724.GA9605@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20040920173224.GJ88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040921061110.GA33071@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount 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: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:53:28 -0000 On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:22:21AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:11:10AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > +> > Maybe you're a victim of the problem which was just fixed in -CURRENT. > +> > Could you try g_mirror.c rev. 1.27 and g_label.c rev. 1.10? > +> > +> I have built a RELENG_5 kernel with g_mirror.c 1.28 and g_label.c 1.11, > +> but it still does the same. I booted over a serial console and here is > +> the capture of a boot -v. The order of the last few lines is a little > +> different when booting using a serial and vga console, but neither > +> works. :-) With a vga console some of the GEOM messages arrive after > +> the Mounting Root message. On both some of the last messages are pretty > +> garbled. > > Not sure how can I help now. This is a new issue, but there is quite simlar > issue already: when one of the mirror's components is down, root file > system also can't be mounted, because gmirror waits some time for all > components to come. > > I've a patch which should solve your problem: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/root_mount.patch > > but it is not going to be committed, as phk asked me to hold on, he will > provide some more complete solution. Yes, you are right, this patch does solve my problem. I'll keep it in my local tree for now. Thanks. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org