Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:57:06 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen <ulf.lilleengen@gmail.com> To: Clayton Fuller <claytonf@bitheaven.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe to ignore GEOM warnings on ZFS raidz? Message-ID: <917871cf0903120257u40537e4fp47b6d3ab973f706@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6D5ADA2B-9471-4404-892D-1DFAB9011C09@bitheaven.net> References: <6D5ADA2B-9471-4404-892D-1DFAB9011C09@bitheaven.net>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Clayton Fuller <claytonf@bitheaven.net>wrote: > I am setting up a new home file server on CURRENT-8.0 using 4 1.5 TB SATA > drives in a ZFS raidz pool > I created the pool without first partitioning or labeling the drives. > > during the boot sequence, I get the following warnings for each of the > drives: > GEOM: ad6: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. > GEOM: ad6: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable. > > here's the drive info (I have 3 identical drives at ad8, ad12 and ad14) > ad6: 1430799MB <Seagate ST31500341AS CC1H> at ata3-master SATA300 > > The storage pool seems to work fine, as tested by transferring nearly a > terabyte of data, simulating a failed drive, resilvering, etc and all seems > to be working well. > > invoking the zpool scrub <poolname> command will bring up the corrupt GPT > errors again, but all other read/write operations on my storage pool seem to > be fine. > > Is GEOM in any way necessary for managing this ZFS pool? Can I safely > ignore the warnings? Is there a better way to configure this to keep GEOM > happy? > This has not necessarily anything to do with the pool itself, but gpart will display this message in case it finds remains of an old GPT partition. I think you can ignore the warnings. At least they have posed no problem from me for a while now. > > I'd be happy to supply more specifics if germane, but thought I'd try to > keep it simple. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > -Clayton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Ulf Lilleengen
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