Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:03:03 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror losing drive Message-ID: <42659C37.4000900@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <1113925642.80629.15.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <20050419120110.39B3216A4CE@hub.freebsd.org> <1113925642.80629.15.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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Paul Mather wrote: > Do you have swap on your geom_mirror? Yes. > In earlier versions of > geom_mirror, even a clean shutdown would cause a mirror to be marked > degraded if swap was still active. The fix at the time was to amend the > stop_cmd in /etc/rc.d/swap1 to do an explicit "swapoff -a" (or similar). > Later modifications rendered this explicit step unnecessary. Yes, that hit me too (on another machine), but it would render a disk stale, it would not become lost. > I also remember a short window in which I experienced the same problem > of losing a drive/consumer at reboot when a mirror would become degraded > (in my case, due to the TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA problems I was having with > 5.x/6.x). This seemed to go away with a subsequent upgrade. Hmm, this might be it, altough I'm usinc SCIS, so no DMA stuff... > So, if you are planning to upgrade when 5.4-RELEASE rolls around, you > might find that these problems disappear. I am planning to do that as soon as it's released. I hope it will help. bye & Thanks av.
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