ports/136676: hald/GNOME (I guess) (re) mounted /usr and /var through their /dev/ufsid devices

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 11:00 +0000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/136676; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>
> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: ports/136676: hald/GNOME (I guess) (re) mounted /usr and /var through their /dev/ufsid devices
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:51:57 +1000
> 
>  Hmm.  Just noticed some daily status messages and I suspect that
>  the situation is not as clear as I'd thought before, but I'm not
>  sure what is going on.
>  
>  gmirror status:
>        Name    Status  Components
>  mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad4
>  
>  and ls /dev/ad*:
>  /dev/ad4
>  /dev/ad4s1
>  /dev/ad6
>  /dev/ad6s1
>  /dev/ad6s1a
>  /dev/ad6s1b
>  /dev/ad6s1c
>  /dev/ad6s1d
>  /dev/ad6s1e
>  
>  So, clearly ad6 has somehow fallen out of the mirror (it was
>  mirroring ad4), and when that happened the images of the
>  partition table were picked up as individual file systems, which
>  hald proceeded to try to mount.
>  
>  I suspect that this is really a gmirror and/or devd sort of
>  problem, rather than a GNOME/hald sort of problem.
>  
>  Any other information that I can provide?

I added support for ufsids in hal in MarcusCom CVS.  This will eliminate
the possibility of mounting the same FS twice.  However, the fact that a
volume is falling out of a RAID is bad.  I think you need to open a new
PR against the GEOM subsystem.  No amount of hal foo will help fix that.

Joe

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