Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:17 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>, amvandemore@gmail.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader does not load after reinstall with previous mirrored disk attached Message-ID: <4ad871310911181921s14c4d622r2413e40aaed818e7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B04B50E.6070504@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <4ad871310911181835n7b72dde1o22c73ec86dcc6c12@mail.gmail.com> <4B04B50E.6070504@lazlarlyricon.com>
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Hi Rolf and Adam, Since you both seemingly responded with the same solution, I'll respond including the more verbose response: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > > I recently, successfully, broke a gmirror by simply issuing gmirror clear on > all the disks, three in my case. Since gmirror stores metadata in the last > sector of the disks (according to the gmirror man page) and everything else > is untouched, issuing a gmirror clear reverts the disks to single disk > usage, and since the data isn't striped, the system will be able to read the > data and mount the filesystem(s). > This makes sense, and hopefully I will not have to try it for some time, next time I need to break a mirror, I will try 'clear'-ing it first. Thanks, -- Glen Barber
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