On 12/23/-58 20:59, Joe Kelsey wrote:
I am having a real hard time with gmirror.
I recently bought two new 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I
think I am following the directions, but I am not sure.
I generally do the following steps:
edit /boot/loader.conf to add
On Mar 25, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Christopher Schulte wrote:
As I understand it now, the user has to manually account for this
at OS
install, and adjust the disk layout accordingly... yes?
when was the last time you ran fdisk and it didn't leave some spare
sectors at the end? i don't think
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:53 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new
400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the
directions, but I am not sure.
I have seen lockups, spontaneous reboots, corrupt filsystems on
On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Marten wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:53 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new
400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following
the
directions, but I am not sure.
I have seen lockups,
Joe Kelsey wrote:
I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new
400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the
directions, but I am not sure.
I generally do the following steps:
edit /boot/loader.conf to add geom_mirror_load.
reboot into
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:44:05PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
For that reason, I have decided that the SII3512 is unreliable and will
replace it with a Promise controller, basically the cheapest one (TX2).
I hope it works better.
I've been using cheap Promise controllers for years, more
I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new
400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the
directions, but I am not sure.
I generally do the following steps:
edit /boot/loader.conf to add geom_mirror_load.
reboot into single-user
gmirror label
Joe Kelsey wrote:
So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the system by
trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I need to do
differently?
Here are the relevant dmesg lines:
atapci0: SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port
Joe Kelsey wrote:
The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to
take two brand new disk drives and mirror them. Nothing in the
documentation discusses this. Do you have to create file systems on the
This is actually easy:
1. Create everything you need on the first
Ivan Voras wrote:
Joe Kelsey wrote:
So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the system by
trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I need to do
differently?
Here are the relevant dmesg lines:
atapci0: SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port
On Mar 25, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote:
Ivan Voras wrote:
Joe Kelsey wrote:
So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the
system by
trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I
need to do
differently?
Here are the relevant dmesg lines:
atapci0:
The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to
take two brand new disk drives and mirror them.
You're right. This is a tutorial.
Nothing in the
documentation discusses this.
The in-tree documentation explains the syntax of the admin commands and
the technical
Regarding the gmirror talk: I found this helpful, as well:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
Has there been any talk of a gmirror aware sysinstall that would
adjust the size of the disk layout by one sector to ensure that the
metadata is not overwritten? (and
Hello!
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:12:59PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to
take two brand new disk drives and mirror them. Nothing in the
documentation discusses this.
It is supposed to work like this:
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