Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:53:06 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount Message-ID: <20040921075306.GA35481@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20040921072221.GC93460@darkness.comp.waw.pl> 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>
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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
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