Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:14:58 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstripe/gpart problems. Message-ID: <20110105171458.GA43278@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <E1PaPnf-000N1w-2W@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1PaPnf-000N1w-2W@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> Hi Clifton,
> I was getting very frustrated yesterday, hence the cripted message, your
> response requieres some background :-)
> the box is a Sun Fire X2200, which has bays for 2 disks, (we have several of
> these)
> before the latest upgrade, the 2 disks were 'raided' via 'nVidia MediaShield'
> and
> appeared as ar0, when I upgraded to 8.2, it disappeared, since I had in the
> kernel config file
> ATA_CAM. So I starded fiddling with gstripe, which 'recoverd' the data.
> Next, since the kernel boot kept complaining abouf GEOM errors, (and not
> wanting to
> mislead the operators) I cleaned up the data, and started from scratch.
> the machine boots diskless, but I like to keep a root bootable partition just
> in case.
> the process was in every case the same, first the stripe, then gpart the
> stripe.
Thanks, that makes it very clear why things are as they are. Good to know
that the booting issues are covered via diskless boot.
I had never thought about being able to recover a RAID stripe using
gstripe. That's a very interesting capability!
Assuming that FreeBSD considers partitioning a stripe to be valid in
principle - and you give reasons it should - then there may be a geom/driver
interaction bug to investigate here if the geom layer is refusing to write a
stripe-oriented partition to the raw drive.
-- Clifton
--
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