ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

This is not cool folks.

Anyone know what I have to roll back to - and what files I have to roll back -
to stop this cluster-##@kery?

tty ad4 ad6 twed0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
224 453 0.61 0 0.00 120.16 427 50.06 0.61 0 0.00 2 0 4 2 92

See that? There's nothing really running. What I tried to do was
"gmirror insert b500 ad4s1"

The command took, but NO IO WAS TAKEN TO THE TARGET DRIVE FOR REBUILDING; the
SOURCE disk was locked in a 100% I/O run, and after stopping the rebuild THE
I/O INFINITE LOOP IS STILL GOING ON!

I had a PRODUCTION MACHINE go down on my last night over this when it
attempted to run its backup process and wedged due to process table overflow;
the first attempt apparently never finished the day before and the second, to
a SECOND backup disk (I have a rolling disk backup system using GMIRROR's
resync) caused the system to wedge in an I/O wait.

This was also not cleanly restartable, as the root partition had multiple
error on it that fsck -p couldn't fix.

This is a SEVERE emergency in that anyone who has a disk that has to be
rebuilt under -STABLE right now (sources as of 7 September) is screwed, blued
and tattooed.

That PRODUCTION machine is running UNPROTECTED right now (no mirroring) as a
consequence of this, and I can neither back it up using the usual mirror NOR
restore its redundancy!

I see only one comment about GMIRROR changes in the commitlogs since 9/1, and
it claims to be (mostly) cosmetic.

Obviously not!

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