Re: gmirror Issues


On Mar 25, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote:

Ivan Voras wrote:
Joe Kelsey wrote:


So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the system by
trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I need to do
differently?

Here are the relevant dmesg lines:
atapci0: <SiI 3512 SATA150 controller> port
0xa000-0xa007,0x9800-0x9803,0x9400-0x9407,0x9000-0x9003,0x8800-0x880 f
mem 0xfba00000-0xfba001ff irq 18 at device 13.0 on pci0


I did almost the same thing you did with gmirror on 6.2-release on amd64
the other day and it worked. There were several complaints about "SiI"
hardware in the past, though - you might want to search the lists.


Thank you for the suggestion, but it does not help. There is some traffic on the list about the 3112, but I have a 3512, which does not have any list traffic about bugs.

The major thing that needs doing is a detailed explanation of how to take two brand new disk drives and mirror them. Nothing in the documentation discusses this. Do you have to create file systems on the drives first? Do you have to use fdisk to slice them up? Is there a size limit on drives? I am trying to mirror two 400G drives, is this supported? There is no information anywhere that I can find about these topics.

Have you seen this:

http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

g.
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