hello. OK. Still more info.There seem to be two bugs here: 1. Raid sets with gpt partition tables in the raid set are not able to reconstruct failed components because, for some reason, the failed component is still marked open by the system even after the raidframe code has marked it dead. Still looking into the fix for that one.
2. Raid sets with gpt partition tables on them cannot be unconfigured and reconfigured without rebooting. This is because dkwedge_delall() is not called during the raid shutdown process. I have a patch for this issue which seems to work fine. See the following output: host#raidctl -u raid2 (From dmesg) dk1 at raid2 (f8b345ca-c74f-11df-806c-001e68041c80) deleted Then: host#raidctl -c /etc/raid2.conf raid2 (From dmesg) Hosed component: /dev/sd10a raid2: Component /dev/sd8a being configured at col: 0 Column: 0 Num Columns: 5 Version: 2 Serial Number: 2009081302 Mod Counter: 383 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid2: Component /dev/sd3a being configured at col: 1 Column: 1 Num Columns: 5 Version: 2 Serial Number: 2009081302 Mod Counter: 383 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid2: Component /dev/sd9a being configured at col: 2 Column: 2 Num Columns: 5 Version: 2 Serial Number: 2009081302 Mod Counter: 383 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid2: Component /dev/sd4a being configured at col: 3 Column: 3 Num Columns: 5 Version: 2 Serial Number: 2009081302 Mod Counter: 383 Clean: Yes Status: 0 raid2: Ignoring /dev/sd10a raid2: RAID Level 5 raid2: Components: /dev/sd8a /dev/sd3a /dev/sd9a /dev/sd4a /dev/sd10a[**FAILED**] raid2: Total Sectors: 573495040 (280026 MB) raid2: GPT GUID: f8b345ac-c74f-11df-806c-001e68041c80 dk1 at raid2: f8b345ca-c74f-11df-806c-001e68041c80 Here's the patch. Note that this is against NetBSD-5.0 sources, but it should be clean for 5.1, and, i'm guessing, -current as well. -Brian Index: rf_netbsdkintf.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/raidframe/rf_netbsdkintf.c,v retrieving revision 1.250.4.4 diff -u -r1.250.4.4 rf_netbsdkintf.c --- rf_netbsdkintf.c 4 Apr 2009 17:15:14 -0000 1.250.4.4 +++ rf_netbsdkintf.c 7 Jan 2011 13:31:03 -0000 @@ -849,6 +849,7 @@ free(cf, M_RAIDFRAME); /* Detach the disk. */ + dkwedge_delall(&rs->sc_dkdev); disk_detach(&rs->sc_dkdev); disk_destroy(&rs->sc_dkdev); } @@ -1195,6 +1196,7 @@ free(cf, M_RAIDFRAME); /* Detach the disk. */ + dkwedge_delall(&rs->sc_dkdev); disk_detach(&rs->sc_dkdev); disk_destroy(&rs->sc_dkdev);