I was recently updating my 7-STABLE system from a 7.1-PRERELEASE era
tree, and after having quite an unexpected headache doing so I have a
few words of wisdom.
When updating FreeBSD, treat it like a car and ALWAYS CHECK YOUR MIRRORS!
My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I
My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I have a
finicky controller that sporadically spits out READ_DMA and READ_DMA48
or bad cables.
timeouts inexplicably. So at some point in time immemorial after
installing the last kernel, ad4 suffered a number of READ_DMA48 errors
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/03/09 15:58
My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I have a
finicky controller that sporadically spits out READ_DMA and READ_DMA48
or bad cables.
I'll have to try different cables sometime, you may very well be correct.
timeouts
or bad cables.
I'll have to try different cables sometime, you may very well be correct.
i had such problems many times. it always was cables or disk drive.
Disk drive - check with smartmontools from ports.
i simply have in crontab a script running once per hour:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/gmirror
Reid Linnemann wrote:
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/03/09 15:58
i simply have in crontab a script running once per hour:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/gmirror status|grep -q DEGRADED \\
mail -s gmirror failure myphonenum...@mygsmoperator.pl /dev/null
Surely you jest! You presume that I have
