GEOM vinum and SMP (AMD64)

[Ulf Lilleengen]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Nyaano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just tried out FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 (AMD64) on a Core2Duo E6300.
> I installed the SMP kernel without any problem, made a gvinum 
> configuration and created a RAID5 volume.
> I can mount it without any problems, and I added geom_vinum_load="YES" 
> in /boot/loader.conf and the appropriate line in /etc/fstab after 
> creating a filesystem on the volume.
> After that, I do a simple shutdown -r now because I want to make sure 
> that everything starts up the way it should.
> When the system comes to the point where it's going to mount the RAID5 
> volume, it complains about the superblock and says it's corrupt.
> 
> With exactly the same configuration, but with the GENERIC kernel, 
> everything works without any problems.
> 
> Before I spend more time on trying to get this working with SMP, I'd 
> like to know if this is a known problem, and if it's not, what 
> information is needed from me in order to track down what the problem is.

Hi,

Could you try to boot into single-user mode, try fsck on the volume, and then
mount it? It would also be nice if you could send your config as well as any
relevant error message.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen