As per subject: I have a 5.3 box with two SATA drives and I using gmirror to achieve RAID 1.
The problem is it started rebuilding the array *on every boot*.


From the logs:

Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: ad4: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0/YAR511W0> [158816/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: ad6: 78167MB <Maxtor 6Y080M0/YAR511W0> [158816/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=2197339280).
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad4 detected.
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6 detected.
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6 activated.
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched.
Mar 12 16:39:16 robert kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad4.





fdisk /dev/ad4 (same for /dev/ad6 or /dev/mirror/gm0) gives:

******* Working on device /dev/ad4 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=158816 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=158816 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 63, size 160071597 (78159 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 747/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>




bsdlabel /dev/mirror/gm0s1:

# /dev/mirror/gm0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 1048576 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8
b: 4194304 1048592 swap
c: 160071597 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edi
t
d: 41943040 5242896 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552


(Yes, I left some space unused.)




Finally /etc/fstab:

# Device             Mountpoint   FStype  Options      Dump  Pass#
/dev/mirror/gm0s1b   none         swap    sw           0     0
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a   /            ufs     rw           1     1
/dev/mirror/gm0s1d   /usr         ufs     rw           2     2
/dev/acd0            /cdrom       cd9660  ro,noauto    0     0



And I have swapoff="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.



I cannot think of any reason this might happen, but I'd appreciate any hint to avoid that.


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