gmirror cannot update metadata on disk da0s1

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:20:51AM -0800, Octavian Hornoiu wrote:
+> I have followed the instructions as per the document at
+> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to setup my geom mirror using
+> FreeBSD 5.3-p5 and two 70 gig SCSI maxtor drives of identical size.  I
+> have tried both the whole partition gm0 and single slice gm0s1
+> alternatives to mirroring the drives and I have tried both hardcoding
+> and without hardcoding and I still get cannot update metadata or cannot
+> read metadata or cannot write metadata.  The drive with metadata
+> problems will change depending with the setup so sometimes da0 works
+> fine and da1 is broken or vice versa.  There does not seem to be a
+> pattern to this.  I have worked with vinum many times before and I'm not
+> inexperience but I have reached the end of the road with gmirror.  I've
+> tried 8 times to mirror these disks now with different configurations
+> and I've failed every time.  I have even alternated the sizes of the
+> slices and left room at the end of the drive, at the beginning of the
+> drive, etc.  Here are the appropriate informational dumps:
[...]
+> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Feb 23 16:19:57 PST 2005
[...]
Could you try with 5-STABLE?

+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1 created (id=1445021139).
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 detected.
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da1s1 detected.
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da1s1 activated.
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 (error=1).
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 activated.
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider mirror/gm0s1 launched.
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk da0s1 (error=1).
+> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider da0s1 disconnected.

I remember this problem, but not sure when exaclty it was fixed.
The best I can offer is to try 5-STABLE.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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