On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Just looking for some advice, I had a server lock up that uses gmirror
for two RAID-1 arrays of the primary drive and a data drive. The data
drive was reported as degraded after a reset of the server, but is
rebuilding. It is comprised of two TB
On 08/04/2011 16:43, Christopher Hilton wrote:
Should a normal user be able to successfully:
$ gmirror remove /dev/mirror/gm0 /dev/ad6
Or is this something that's just unlocked because I haven't mounted the drive
yet?
$ uname -a
FreeBSD deathstar.example.com 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
If you've been able to run 'gmirror label' then geom_mirror.ko is
almost certainly already loaded into your kernel, making 'gmirror
load' superfluous. Check using kldstat(8).
Fixit# kldstat
Id Refs AddressSize Name
11
I wrote:
The good news is ...
Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot
after which gmirror load works, creating /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b}.
and the bad news is that it still doesn't work:
* gmirror load did create /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b}, and it produced
no output on stdout or stderr, but it
On 05/09/2010 05:14:02, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Fixit# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0s2a
appeared to work properly. (I didn't write down the exact
message, but it said something about the metadata having
been written successfully.) However:
Fixit# gmirror load
gmirror:
On 10 August 2010 17:33, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote:
How can I totally remove a created gmirror (gm0)
I know of the option gmirror forget gm0 but does that make the mirror
disappear?
# gmirror clear gm0
perhaps?
Michael Grimm wrote:
Hi --
I'm running a gmirror raid1 plus gjournal for a year now. This is a
7.2-RELEASE-p6 right now. Both disks are regular ATA and healthy
according smartctl.
Sometimes, not always though, I do experience spontaneous reboots
without leaving any hints in logfiles whenver I
2009/10/13 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up
gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new system. I want to
krad wrote:
2009/10/13 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up
gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new
Daniel Bye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up
gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new system. I want to journal my
/home partition, label all the partitions for ease of reference, and
use gmirror to save me in the event a disk goes bad. I am
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up
gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new system. I want to journal my
/home partition, label all the partitions for ease of
Hi there all,
I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1
with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to
do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at the
time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:41:05PM +1000, Michael Christie wrote:
Hi there all,
I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1
with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to
do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the
On 8/9/09, Michael Christie vk3...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there all,
I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1
with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to
do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at the
Yes you are right , I would like to clean off the drives, defalt and clean,
then reformat. and reinstall, i did see a post some where on how to do it
with the fixit cd, but can not find it now. any idears ?
Thanks
Mick
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On
On Friday 31 July 2009 02:24:31 Grzegorz Danecki wrote:
Hello everybody!
I'm just wondering, I had gmirror with two disks:
Master: ad0 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II
Master: ad2 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II
unfortunately ad0 failed today, leaving me with degraded array and ad0
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
4) I have the following in my 7-stable kernel
The long and the short of it is I don't get any dumps.
I read somewhere that you can't dump onto a gmirror device.
That is incorrect, but I don't know the cause of your problem. I run
nothing but gmirror and dumps
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Philip M. Gollucci
pgollu...@p6m7g8.comwrote:
Hi,
Say I've got the following:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a989M390M520M43%/
/dev/mirror/gm0s1g 15G1.7G 12G13%/usr
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:46:32AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Philip M. Gollucci
pgollu...@p6m7g8.comwrote:
Hi,
Say I've got the following:
/dev/mirror/gm0s1bnoneswapsw
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a989M390M520M43%/
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Grzegorz Danecki g.dane...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello everybody!
I'm just wondering, I had gmirror with two disks:
Master: ad0 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II
Master: ad2 ST3160815AS/4.AAB Serial ATA II
unfortunately ad0 failed today, leaving me with degraded
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:48:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted.
isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted?
should it not be mounted?
yes it should
On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
now to mirror root partition.
My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted,
unlike /efi,
on the live system.
# gpart add -b 819234 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs da1
da1p2 added
#
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:28PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:
On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
now to mirror root partition.
My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted,
unlike /efi,
on the live system.
# gpart add -b 819234 -s 1048576
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:00:54PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's better to use gmirror per partition.
Like this?
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted.
isn't that partition accessed by other process or
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted.
isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted?
should it not be mounted?
yes it should not, no matter what architecture.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:41:13AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
dev_taste(DEV,mirror/gm0)
g_part_taste(PART,mirror/gm0)
GEOM: mirror/gm0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
GEOM: mirror/gm0: using the primary only --
It's better to use gmirror per partition.
Like this?
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted.
isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted?
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Hi,
On 28.06.2009, at 10:49, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
I for one never put mirror on
already partitioned disk. Although it is sometimes safe to use the
last
sector. Gjournal already looks for UFS and if UFS is in place, it
figures out if the last sector is in use - it isn't if
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:41:13AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
dev_taste(DEV,mirror/gm0)
g_part_taste(PART,mirror/gm0)
GEOM: mirror/gm0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
GEOM: mirror/gm0: using the primary only --
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 06:20:49PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
Using the last sector is not only flawed because it creates a race
condition, it's flawed in the assumption that you can always make
a geom part of a mirror by storing meta-data on the geom without
causing corruption. This whole
2009/6/28 Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com:
Using the last sector is not only flawed because it creates a race
condition, it's flawed in the assumption that you can always make
a geom part of a mirror by storing meta-data on the geom without
causing corruption. This whole idea of using the
Ivan Voras wrote:
Yes, it would be cleaner to implement but it would also make the
mirrored devices unbootable.
But maybe the class of users needing the functionality is smaller now.
Most dedicated server providers can't afford to use hardware RAID
systems because that would drastically
On Jun 27, 2009, at 4:15 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
dev_taste(DEV,mirror/gm0)
g_part_taste(PART,mirror/gm0)
GEOM: mirror/gm0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
GEOM: mirror/gm0: using the primary only --
On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
dev_taste(DEV,mirror/gm0)
g_part_taste(PART,mirror/gm0)
GEOM: mirror/gm0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid.
GEOM: mirror/gm0: using the primary only -- recovery suggested.
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root
partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the
disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this
correct?
You can also do it the other way round.
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root
partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the
disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this
yes it is right order.
with geli then gmirror -
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root
partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the
disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this
yes it is
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:58:46PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
List,
I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root
partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the
disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this
correct?
That
Hello everyone,
Do you think the following way to upgrade gmirror 6.2 - 7.1 is safe for the
average person?
yes
1. Backup
2. Remove one of the two SCSI HDDs from the gmirror
3. Install 7.1 on the removed HDD
4. Instruct the boot loader to boot from the 7.1 HDD
5. Reboot
6. Copy data
7.
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:11:56 +0200, Iv Ray wrote:
IR Do you think the following way to upgrade gmirror 6.2 - 7.1 is safe
IR for the average person?
IR
IR (The server is in a remote data center without physical console access.)
gmirror created on freebsd 6 works fine on freebsd 7
1. Backup (it
Is gmirror known to break on power failure - i.e., one of the drives
(the same drive every time) becomes unsynchronized, needing a rebuild?
if you turned autosync off - yes
turn it on or do gmirror rebuild
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On Friday 28 November 2008 18:08:19 Andrew Falanga wrote:
I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches
website server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the
install (most importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read
in the manual pages
I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches website
server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the install (most
importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read in the manual
pages that the data for the mirror is contained in the last sector of
is your partition size multiply of fragment size without remainder?
if not (quite a big chance) at least one sector at the end is unused and
never be.
so go on, but then fix disklabel, as c partition is 1 sector smaller.
of course - boot from livecd to do this.
Thanks both Mel and
Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal,
on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set up a mirrored journal
partition + mirrored journalized slice (gmirror on top of gjournal) on which
I create my labels with bsdlabels (will create
Thanks for your reply. I finally understood that with the power failure
tests I made.
Gabriel
2008/11/6 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal,
on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set
Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
The error occured after I had the disk for a couple of days - WHat puzzled me
was that the drive
did not do it automatically
Hard disks will not map uncorrectable bad sectors on read automatically,
as it no longer knows what the contents of that sector should be. In
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 10:04:39 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:00:21AM -0700, Carl wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Seagate chooses to encode some raw data for some SMART attributes in a
custom format. The format is not publicly documented. This is why you
have to
Carl wrote:
I've built a GEOM mirror on a single slice of a single disk and am about
to insert the second disk. Of the partitions in the mirror, I made only
a few of them gjournal'd. I've seen it recommended that one disable
autosynchronization for the mirror if using journaled filesystems.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:04:37PM -0700, Carl wrote:
Carl wrote:
I've built a GEOM mirror on a single slice of a single disk and am
about to insert the second disk. Of the partitions in the mirror, I
made only a few of them gjournal'd. I've seen it recommended that one
disable
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Seagate chooses to encode some raw data for some SMART attributes in a
custom format. The format is not publicly documented. This is why you
have to go off of the adjusted values shown in VALUE/WORST/THRESH.
How am I supposed to know all of this?! You aren't -- it comes
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:00:21AM -0700, Carl wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Seagate chooses to encode some raw data for some SMART attributes in a
custom format. The format is not publicly documented. This is why you
have to go off of the adjusted values shown in VALUE/WORST/THRESH.
How am
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:41:31PM -0700, Carl wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick said:
ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=134802751
Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a
classic block/sector failure.
I hadn't realized that a
so good. Began Ralf's procedure for inserting ad4s1 into mirror/gm0. The
synchronization began and reached 6% when this little horror appeared:
ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE
LBA=134802751
GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5).
error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=134802751
Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a
classic block/sector failure. This does not appear to be the infamous
famous DMA timeout problem, especially if this is the only error
you're getting.
he can temporarity boot with
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:04:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=134802751
Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a
classic block/sector failure. This does not appear to be the infamous
famous DMA timeout problem, especially if this is
Jeremy Chadwick said:
ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=134802751
Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a
classic block/sector failure.
I hadn't realized that a bad block would manifest itself with a message
about DMA.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:56:24PM -0700, Carl Voth wrote:
I'm setting up a dual-disk server and am trying to bring it up with
gmirror and gjournal. One slice per disk, the goal being to create a
single mirror from said slices with some of the partitions journaled.
Installed
I've bought a secondary HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0.
I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch),
you don't have to.
but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for
doing this operation.
The command
dmesg | grep
Today I mirrored my new harddisk with the instructions at
http://www.freebsddiary.org/gmirror.php
Right now I'm synchronized up to 65% :-)
Edwin
--
Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
Dino Vliet wrote:
Hey freebsd list,
I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0. I want
to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch), but I want to
know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for doing this
operation.
The command
I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0.
I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch),
you don't have to.
but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for
doing this operation.
The command
dmesg | grep
Mark Boolootian wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to understand exactly where on disk gmirror is going to write
its metadata,
It just tosses the info in the end of your disk/slice/partition -- I think ;)
In your example, you had a da1d... you could do partition level mirroring instead of whole
more exact info please.
gmirror status
mount or cat /etc/fstab
now much better - i know that you mirrored whole drives and then
partitioned.
are whole mirror labeled? if yes - what partition you have to trim down?
if now - where are place (give me bsdlabel gm0s1 output)
as you have 2
Written by B. Cook on 06/09/08 10:23
Hello all,
I have a FreeBSD 7 machine that I am running gmirror on (ad4 and ad6).
there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized.
(right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G
and exports 10G)
what do I need to do
there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized.
(right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and
exports 10G)
more exact info please.
gmirror status
mount or cat /etc/fstab
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On Jun 9, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized.
(right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been
100G and exports 10G)
more exact info please.
gmirror status
mount or cat /etc/fstab
NameStatus
I was replacing a disk in a gmirror+geli pair and decided to compare
the performance of gmirror+geli+gjournal before adding the new disk.
too much mixer in one to give exact answer.
gmirror - no slowdown, faster reads when at least 2 concurrent, near 0 CPU
load
geli - high CPU load,
hideo wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was replacing a disk in a gmirror+geli pair and decided to compare
the performance of gmirror+geli+gjournal before adding the new disk.
When using these three together is the appropriate order to 1) fdisk
and label 2) mirror the disk, 3) geli the partitions, and 4)
Gary Newcombe wrote:
[...]
# gmirror status
[mesh:/var/log]# gmirror status
NameStatus Components
mirror/gm0 DEGRADED ad4
looking in /dev/ however, we have
crw-r- 1 root operator0, 83 17 Apr 13:58 ad4
crw-r- 1 root operator0, 91 17 Apr 13:58 ad4s1
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:40:04 -0700, Christopher Cowart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gary Newcombe wrote:
[...]
# gmirror status
[mesh:/var/log]# gmirror status
NameStatus Components
mirror/gm0 DEGRADED ad4
looking in /dev/ however, we have
crw-r- 1 root
HN wrote:
Not entirely clear in my mind how to do this. I've got:
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
for the mirroring, but don't have a grasp of how glabel and gjournal
fit into this.
Can I do this with sysinstall (should I ?) and what order should I be
adding things in ? Can I
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Daniel Gerzo wrote:
| Hello people,
|
| I'm trying to set up a gmirror on two slices, but I am stuck
| somewhere. I am unable to find out what is wrong. Here's what I have
| done so far:
|
| I have 2 disks in the box. I have created 2 slices on
Now I want to initialize gmirror on slice 1:
ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted.
ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
you try to make a mirror on used slice or some partition of that
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:41:16PM -0800, Jeff Pflueger wrote:
I have a server and am using gmirror to mirror two disks.
The intent was to double my security...but my experience has been that
it has generally doubled the amount of time that the server goes down!
gm0s1 is the name of the
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Jeff Pflueger wrote:
Hey Jeff,
Try:
gmirror forget ad6s1
From gmirror(8):
remove Remove the given component(s) from the mirror and clear meta-
data on it.
and futher on:
One disk failed. Replace it with a
The size colum can be human readable number (ex, 5g) and the offset
can be the name of the previous partition. For the offset and size of
the first and last partitions respectively use *. Read the
disklabel(8) man page for more details -- it is actually a real well
written one.
I wouldn't worry
Priority: 0
Flags: DIRTY
GenID: 1
SyncID: 2
ID: 1129080348
But when I try to run gmirror configure -a mirror/gm0s1, I get:
No such device: mirror/gm0s1.
Can someone give me some pointers here?
gmirror configure -a gm0s1 (no mirror/ here)
Thanks,
--Brian
On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:31 PMSep 11, 2007, Brian McCann wrote:
I had a disk die in a gmirror set, and I'm trying to replace it, but
I'm having a heck of a time. I can see the mirror set in gmirror
list:
[snip]
[PLUG] Take at peek at https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/
index.php/Gmirror
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:31:34 -0400
Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But when I try to run gmirror configure -a mirror/gm0s1, I get:
No such device: mirror/gm0s1.
have u tried with either
/dev/mirror/gm0s1
or
gm0s1 ?
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
They
Thanks Eric!
--Brian
On 9/11/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:31 PMSep 11, 2007, Brian McCann wrote:
I had a disk die in a gmirror set, and I'm trying to replace it, but
I'm having a heck of a time. I can see the mirror set in gmirror
list:
[snip]
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 06:09, John Crawford wrote:
I'd like to be able to boot either of the
two drives.
That's up to your BIOS. FreeBSD will mount / from the
gmirror, which will be backed by one or more disks. Earlier
stages will use BIOS to load the kernel, etc.
May I suggest {{{
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:57:19PM -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
FreeBSD meno 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Wed Aug 1
08:21:29 PDT 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
I just swapped a gmirror pair of disks into a new box and have run into a
problem that I can't seem to figure
On 19/04/07, Cam Baillie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I set up a RAID 1 duplex following the well-laid out OnLamp
article. I had successfully synchronised both disks prior to
rebooting. Then I rebooted and the ad3 disk wouldn't activate.
The system boots off of ad0 while slices within ad1 and
On 11/04/07, Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
I have a server with gmirror volumes. Backup of this server is being done
with Amanda, which uses GNU tar and its --listed-incremental option
(snapshot files) in order to do incremental backups.
It seems that gmirror devices get a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/04/07, Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems that gmirror devices get a different 'device number' on each
boot
(each time the gmirror is created). Since the device number is stored in
GNU tar's snapshot file, it effectively means that after rebooting
gmirror insert gm0 ad4
The big question is:
In your example, ad4 has already been prepped for use in as a component
in the gmirror by ?
Or will it just overwrite anything on ad4 regardless?
~BAS
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On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:13, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
gmirror insert gm0 ad4
The big question is:
In your example, ad4 has already been prepped for use in as a component
in the gmirror by ?
Or will it just overwrite anything on ad4 regardless?
No prep is necessary when using
i just set up my first gmirror raid1, and... it was really simple.
too
simple. ok... what did i skip or do wrong?, was my first thought.
i follow the doc from onlamp.com:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1
i did have one giant deviation tho, and im
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:11:05PM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
i just set up my first gmirror raid1, and... it was really simple. too
simple. ok... what did i skip or do wrong?, was my first thought.
I thought the exact same thing. My previous experience was with vinum
and, while it was
Quoting Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm trying to use gmirror on my root filesystem. I've set sysctl
kern.geom.debugflags to 16 and yet can't label the root partition.
# gmirror label -v root /dev/ad4s1a
Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1a: Operation not permitted.
I was able to do this
On Thursday 04 January 2007 13:35, Russell E. Meek wrote:
Quoting Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm trying to use gmirror on my root filesystem. I've set sysctl
kern.geom.debugflags to 16 and yet can't label the root
partition.
# gmirror label -v root /dev/ad4s1a
Can't store
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote:
It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after
they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a
small risk of the gmirror metadata
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote:
[risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use]
It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due
to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the
filesystem, etc.
Depending on
Robin Becker wrote:
Dave wrote:
Hi,
I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd
starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both
the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual drives.
If this does work i'd like to know about it as i
On Thursday 21 September 2006 06:15, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Robin Becker wrote:
Dave wrote:
Hi,
I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd
starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both
the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual
John Nielsen wrote:
..
Use both approaches since they tell you different things which just
happen some of the time to coincide.
If you happen to be one of the smart admins who actually reviews the output of
the periodic scripts, then simply adding
daily_status_gmirror_enable=YES
On 9/20/06, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about
Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if
anyone
can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent
failure
of one of
, but am not
sure which one.
Thanks.
Dave.
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From: Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: gmirror HD failure detection
On 9/20/06, Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote:
After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a
about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm
wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware
status to detect imminent failure of one of the disks? Do I use
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