How to autostart geom_stripe?

Sven Willenberger sven at dmv.com
Mon Sep 20 10:02:04 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:44 +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:38:03PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> +> Interestingly, once I applied the patch, and followed the make
> +> instructions you supplied above, the thing actually works (even though
> +> the patch looks like it was designed merely to trap a suspected error).
> +> I am not sure if the physical act of remaking the module from the
> +> modules directory solved the problem or what happened exactly. I will
> +> try a few more reboots and see what happens. 
> 
> This could be an effect of a race which we can have here.
> As I susspect, daX SCSI providers are created with 0 sectorsize. Sectorsize
> is set later, but maybe sometimes before gmirror taste it.
> Few more reboots may confirm my suspicion, yes.
> 
It has survived several reboots now and successfully loaded the stripe
module and mounted the filesystem each time.

Sven



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