geom mirror now rebuilding on every reboot?

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Maksim Yevmenkin
> <maksim.yevmenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Maksim Yevmenkin
>>> <maksim.yevmenkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>>> Something in -current and recently MFC'd to -stable is causing all of my
>>>>> gmirror drives to rebuild on reboot :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Being remote and these being production machines, I suspect SVN r237929
>>>>> and r237930 in -current and SVN r238500 to -stable but haven't yet been
>>>>> able to prove it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is anyone else seeing this?
>>>>
>>>> yes, i've seem something similar only much, much worse. one of our
>>>> production systems completely kept loosing its gmirror volumes on
>>>> every reboot. it looked like gmirror metadata were completely
>>>> corrupted. rebuilding mirrors and reverting back to previous kernel
>>>> seemed to work. someone else is tracking it down.
>>>
>>>     Is this is in 9.1 -PRERELEASE, -RELEASE (or whatever the official
>>> label is...)? If so, it seems like this would be a ship blocker.
>>
>> sorry. its releng_9/9-stable. gmirrors are on two ssds. we use gpt and
>> gmirror individual partitions, not entire disks.
>
> I may well be confused, but I don't understand how you can use GPT for
> a single partition. Looks to me like a disk is GPT or legacy.
> Declaring which is the first command when setting up a new disk.

i'm sorry, to make it (hopefully) clear, we are using gpt partitioning
scheme (as opposed to mbr partitioning scheme), and then use gmirror
on individual partitions, i.e. we gimirror /dev/ada0p1 and /dev/ada1p1
and not /dev/ada0 and /dev/ada1.

thanks
max