On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:39 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0,
> which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I
> have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in
> this document top section through dumping the data and setting up
> /etc/fstab and loader.conf. I created the /boot.config as shown except I
> replaced the '1' with '2' just like I did for the other steps, but this
> does not appear correct. I now stall when booting at the boot: prompt.
> What can I type in the boot: prompt to get back in my system and make
> the necessary changes? Also, what should the /boot.config look like to
> boot to my new disk and continue through the steps for adding the first
> disk to the mirror? I guess it looks like this now: 1:ad(2,a)/boot/loader.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
>
I was able to recover with a FreeSBIE and go back, seems I was close. I
have the GEOM working now as shown below. However, after successfully
synchronizing and doing a reboot, it shows up DEGRADED after every
reboot and synchronizes again, is that normal?
genoa# gmirror list
Geom name: gm0
State: DEGRADED
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
SyncID: 1
ID: 4224071626
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
Mediasize: 15364338688 (14G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r4w3e2
Consumers:
1. Name: ad0
Mediasize: 15364339200 (14G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r0w1e1
State: SYNCHRONIZING
Priority: 0
Flags: DIRTY, SYNCHRONIZING
SyncID: 1
Synchronized: 28%
ID: 4099754703
2. Name: ad2
Mediasize: 15364339200 (14G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r4w3e3
State: ACTIVE
Priority: 0
Flags: DIRTY
SyncID: 1
ID: 3454124143
Geom name: gm0.sync
Consumers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
Mediasize: 15364338688 (14G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w0e0
--
Robert
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