gmirror on slice

[Bogdan Ćulibrk]

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Daniel Gerzo wrote:
| Hello people,
|
|  I'm trying to set up a gmirror on two slices, but I am stuck
|  somewhere. I am unable to find out what is wrong. Here's what I have
|  done so far:
|
|  I have 2 disks in the box. I have created 2 slices on both of them
|  (ad{4,6}s1 and ad{4,6}s2) through sysinstall. (btw,
|  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72895&cat= is really
|  annoying, lucky I had a remote console :-))
|
|  Now I want to initialize gmirror on slice 1:
|
| ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1
| gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted.
| ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
| kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 16
| ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1
| gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted.
|
| for additional information, I am including the following:
|
| ha-db1# fdisk -vp ad4
| # /dev/ad4
| g c1453521 h16 s63
| p 1 0xa5 63 72340632
| a 1
| p 2 0xa5 72340695 1392803370
|
| ha-db1# disklabel /dev/ad4s1
| # /dev/ad4s1:
| 8 partitions:
| #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
|   a:  1048576        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384     8
|   b: 25165824  1048576      swap
|   c: 72340632        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part,
don't edit
|   d: 25165824 26214400    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
|   e: 20960408 51380224    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
|
|
|  Any ideas will be much appreciated.
|


Hi there,

sysinstall is piece of crap when it comes to gmirror'ing slices.
I recall that I had numerous problems with it and that I couldn't find
any solution nor workaround but doing slicing by hand.
Have serial console handy if you don't have physical access to the system.

I hope this 2857574857th whine about bugs in sysinstall will reach to
someone capable of fixing it.



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Best regards,
Bogdan Culibrk
bc at default.co.yu http://default.co.yu/~bc
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