Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Tobias Ernst
Modulok schrieb: Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the latter part of

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:31 PMSep 4, 2007, Modulok wrote: Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or

Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-04 Thread Modulok
Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the latter part of the question that is the

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the latter part of the question that is the real issue for me. I'm just looking for a confirmed it's possible. yes it is. but with unplugged, with failed it may not

Re: root on gmirror and disk failure...

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Modulok wrote: The provider, /dev/mirror/gm0, is not being created. This is significant for obvious reasons: no mirror means no provider which means no root. The module /boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko is loaded, as I have manually loaded it via the

root on gmirror and disk failure...

2007-09-01 Thread Modulok
BACKGROUND I'm experimenting with gmirror on the root partition on a test system running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I have two physical disks on the same IDE header (master and slave). This was setup following the tutorial in the handbook. The system boots and mounts root from /dev/mirror/gm0s1a as