Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:15:18 +0200 From: Shaun Courtney <shaun@vine.co.za> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount Message-ID: <20040921091518.GA41430@gvmail.vine.co.za> In-Reply-To: <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> <20040921075306.GA35481@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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Hi, I've been trying to do much the same on similar hardware. The problem I have is I've tried gmirror on ad0, ad0a and ad0s1a and I just can't get the thing to work. Do you have any pointers that will make my task a little less painful! I'm trying to create a mirror (RAID1) /, swap (if possible) and /usr setup. I've got two identical disks - which I've left a few megs (6) free at the end of each. Can you give me some help on what you did to get it up and running, I've got 5.3-BETA4 - cvsuped to BETA5. Thanks, Shaun P.S. Is geom_mirror the best route to go, I've tried gvinum and vinum (not sure of its support on 5.3?) On Tue Sep 21 09:53:06 2004 John Hay wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Shaun Courtney -- Grapevine Interactive Research and Development +27 82 371 2046 +27 21 702 3333
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