Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:38:00 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386 Message-ID: <20050114063800.GA7175@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200501130951.17307.4711@chello.at> References: <20050113025339.GC1218@polands.org> <200501130951.17307.4711@chello.at>
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:54, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=79 > > You probably destroyed your slice table here. The dd command only > makes sense if you insert whole disks (ie. /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6) as > providers. Otherwise you need to create (or already have) a valid > slice table on the disk, which enables gmirror to locate and insert > your slice. > I wonder why it's documented to do that? Guess that proves I'm too green to understand the consequences of my actions. > (!) Before you start to correct your gmirror setup, please read all of > my comments, because to me it looks like you run a mirror of ad6 and > not ad6s1. > I'm quite sure I entered ad6s1 as opposed to ad6 in my commands. In retrospect, however, I think I horked up my bsdlabel for /dev/mirror/gsm0. I didn't set the offset for the a partition to 16. Perhaps that accounts for the difference? While I was waiting for a reply I messed around with the configuration and throughly broke it. It's no big deal as this is a brand new server with nothing on it but a minimal install. I want to get this gmirror working and understand it before I put the box into production. I decided to start over (re-install 5.3) and go through the instructions more carefully. I'll email the list if I have more/other problems, thanks for your help. -- Regards, Doug
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