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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:11:16 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Zpool on raw disk and weird GEOM complaint
Message-ID:  <b649e5e0906290411n7b501affhfaec1cf1469073ff@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090629094359.GB24054@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <20090629094359.GB24054@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:43, Patrick M. Hausen<hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I have a system with 12 S-ATA disks attached that I set up
> as a raidz2:
>
> %zpool status zfs
> =A0pool: zfs
> =A0state: ONLINE
> =A0scrub: scrub in progress for 0h5m, 7.56% done, 1h3m to go
> config:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0NAME =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0STATE =A0 =A0 READ WRITE CKSUM
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0zfs =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0raidz2 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da2 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da3 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da4 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da5 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da6 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da7 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da8 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da9 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da10 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da11 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
>
> errors: No known data errors
>
> We are currently tweaking kernel memory a bit but the on disk
> data and the hardware seem to be just fine.
>
> 7-STABLE, amd64, 4 GB of RAM.
>
> A couple of days ago, at each boot we saw this error message:
>
> GEOM: da0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected.
> GEOM: da0: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable.
>
>
> There should not be any partition, MBR or GPT on the disks,
> I created the zpool on the raw devices.
>
> So I figure:
>
> Somehow zfs wrote some data to da0 that somewhat resembles a
> GPT partition table, so GEOM gets confused at boot time.
>
> Question is: can somebody confirm my guess? If yes should I
> just ignore the message, can it be disabled somehow (compile
> kernel without GPT?) or should zpools be created on slices instead
> of disks?

Hi,

could you post the output of
dd if=3D/dev/da0 count=3D1 | hd



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