geom mirror now rebuilding on every reboot?

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 7 23:42:21 UTC 2012


On 07.08.2012 17:09, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 07.08.2012 04:03, Tom Uffner wrote:
>> GEOM_RAID: Promise: Array Promise Created
>> GEOM_RAID: Promise: Disk ad4 state changed from NONE to SPARE
>> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot open consumer ad4 (error=1)
>> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot add disk ad4 to gm0 (error=1)
>> wondering if anyone knew offhand what is going on & how to fix it.
>
> You can remove "options GEOM_RAID" from your kernel config.

I think the right answer would be to remove stale Promise format RAID 
metadata from the disk. You should be able to do it by booting from any 
source and doing `graid list -a` to see all RAID GEOMs (even broken) and 
then remove them with `graid remove Promise ad4`.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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