Software raid on Sparc64

Joacim Melin listor at melin.org
Sat Mar 4 06:22:08 PST 2006


it appears to be building the RAID:

klingklang# gmirror status
       Name    Status  Components
mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad0
                       ad1 (1%)


hooray!

A thousand of thanks to you, Bernd! (and to the list for putting up  
with newbie questions. :) )

Joacim

On 4 mar 2006, at 15.10, Bernd Walter wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:46:39PM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
>> here is the output:
>>
>> klingklang# gmirror list
>> Geom name: gm0
>> State: DEGRADED
>> Components: 2
>
> The mirror is configured with 2 components already, but only one
> was found and activated.
> "gmirror forget gm0" should drop the non exiting component.
>
>> On 4 mar 2006, at 14.18, Bernd Walter wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:12:10PM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
>>>> Never mind my last email. Figured it out.
>>>>
>>>> The box now boots from /dev/mirror/gm0:
>>>>
>>>> klingklang# gmirror status
>>>>      Name    Status  Components
>>>> mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I try to add /dev/ad1 to the raid with this command:
>>>>
>>>> klingklang# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad1
>>>> Not all disks connected.
>>>
>>> What does gmirror list say?
>>> I'm a bit confused about the degraded status, because ad0 is the
>>> only existing component, which should be running.
>
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