Re: geom not clearing metadata labels
R I've got a geom based file system that is running under 2 geom R modules: multipath and journal. Solved the problem, so here's some notes for the archive: - the answers were hiding throughout in the freebsd-geom mailing list archives, I just forgot to look there initially. - this was a single data disk that was improperly partitioned/sliced in the beginning, therefore the metadata information was being picked up twice and auto creating the journal device under each device. - if the journal is being picked up multiple times (ie slice + partition), then remove one of the formatting options (via dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/x bs=512 count=32) so only 1 journal is picked up. Then do gjournal clear /dev/x to properly remove the metadata. - hardcode the gjournal labels for situations like this, as it'll stop it being autoloaded under multiple devices. - gjournal hardcoded provider labels are up to 15 characters long, so long device names can be a pain (like multipath/0s1a is too long). Probably a few other notes that I've forgotten, but that'll get you on the right path. R. -- ___ 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
geom not clearing metadata labels
I've got a geom based file system that is running under 2 geom modules: multipath and journal. I'm looking to increase the journal size on the disk, but when it comes to re-creating the journal geom metadata, it refuses to do so sighting the errno 1: Operation not permitted. I get the same error with trying to redo the multipath metadata as well. (The command I'm executing is gjournal clear -v /dev/multipath/xyz2.journal) Permissions all look correct on the /dev devices, and I'm executing as root/uid 0, and normal disk access is fine - so I'm a little stumped. Executing gjournal list gets the following, which seems correct (mode is r0w0e0 due to being umounted, otherwise r1w1e1 in normal operation) -= Geom name: gjournal 1011364901 ID: 1011364901 Providers: 1. Name: multipath/xyz2.journal Mediasize: 1072668081152 (999G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: multipath/xyz2 Mediasize: 1073741823488 (1000) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Jend: 1073741822976 Jstart: 1072668081152 Role: Data,Journal -= Obviously, I can just reformat/dd the raw disk to get rid of the label, but I'd like to know the better way. :-) Thanks. -- ___ 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
