Danny Howard wrote:
I'm not entirely sure on this one ... you have RTFM?
Obviously. I started with the tutorial at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/, but I read the whole manual before setting it up.
There's "gmirror configure -a" ... but that is about synchronization.
Yes, and synchronization works fine.
What does gmirror info says before you forget / insert?
Hm, I'd have to reboot.
Right now it says:
Geom name: gm0 State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: split Slice: 2048 Flags: NONE SyncID: 5 ID: 2253479574 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/gm0 Mediasize: 36778544640 (34G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r3w3e2 Consumers: 1. Name: da1 Mediasize: 36778545152 (34G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r3w3e3 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY SyncID: 5 ID: 4069582681 2. Name: da0 Mediasize: 36778545152 (34G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r3w3e3 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY SyncID: 5 ID: 4172309470
Geom name: gm0.sync
After a reboot I only see da1 under Consumers and State is DEGRADED (Componentis are still 2, though).
My hunch is that you are not rebooting cleanly, so when the system comes up, gmirror thinks it has to re-sync the disks
I would expect this behaviour, but:
a) I am rebooting cleanly;
b) it doesn't just need resync (that happened to me on another machine), it really loses one drive/Consumer!!!
but it is not configured to do so automatically?
It is, and in fact it does, as soon as I forget/reinsert da0.
What command / process did you use to set up your mirror?
Hard to remember. I more or less followed the tutorial above.
BTW: system is 5.3p9 now
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