Replacing failed drive in gvinum causes panic

Ulf Lilleengen lulf at stud.ntnu.no
Fri Sep 15 05:56:10 PDT 2006


On tor, sep 14, 2006 at 08:11:39 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote:
> I'm getting the same thing as Ludo was getting about 9 months ago with
> both 5.4 and 6.1
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55224+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-geom/20051225.freebsd-geom
*snip*
> 
> now, "gvinum create driveone" results in an immediate panic.  Sometimes
> gvinum will print:
> "array.p0 degraded -> up" just before the panic.
> 
> This seems odd to me since it should take a while for array.p0.s0 to
> come back online, so its like its skipping the rebuild, coming up in
> an odd state, and immediately panic'ing.

Do you also have a different sized drive as Ludo had?
The thing is, that a subdisk has a drive_offset that indicates where on the
drive that a subdisk begin. Gvinum may not actually handle this. 

-- 
Mvh Ulf Lilleengen


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