I had a drive which had some timeout problems, and got kicked out of a gmirror based RAID1 on my FreeBSD machine (now 8.2-RELEASE-p3). Normally, if the devices get out of sync, they rebuild relatively quickly, and I can watch the progress.
This time, after running gmirror forget and inserting the device, it just seems to sit at '0%', despite the fact that it's supposedly synchronizing. I've tried removing and re-adding it a couple times, but the behavior is the same. Am I just being too impatient? Autosynchronization of stale components should have already been enabled (and the gmirror list output says 'synchronizing'), but I tried a "gmirror configure -a gm0" just in case. Also, any opinions on how safe the '-F' option ("Do not synchronize after a power failure or system crash") is? Following: # gmirror remove gm0 ad6 # gmirror forget gm0 ad6 # gmirror insert gm0 ad6 I see: # gmirror list Geom name: gm0 State: DEGRADED Components: 2 Balance: round-robin Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 4 SyncID: 1 ID: 506994055 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/gm0 Mediasize: 1000204885504 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r6w5e14 Consumers: 1. Name: ad10 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 4 SyncID: 1 ID: 3348119132 2. Name: ad6 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: SYNCHRONIZING Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY, SYNCHRONIZING GenID: 4 SyncID: 1 Synchronized: 0% ID: 3439333064 and the status seems to just stay at 0% relevant atacontrol output: ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 <WDC WD10EVDS-63U8B0/01.00A01> SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present ATA channel 5: Master: ad10 <WDC WD10EVDS-63U8B0/01.00A01> SATA revision 2.x Slave: no device present _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"