Can't mount root from raidz2 after r255763 in stable/9

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 3 08:03:23 UTC 2013


on 03/11/2013 05:22 Artem Belevich said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a box with root mounted from 8-disk raidz2 ZFS volume.
> After recent buildworld I've ran into an issue that kernel fails to
> mount root with error 6.
> r255763 on stable/9 is the first revision that fails to mount root on
> mybox. Preceding r255749 boots fine.
> 
> Commit r255763 (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255763)
> MFCs bunch of changes from 10 but I don't see anything that obviously
> impacts ZFS.

Indeed.

> Attempting to boot with vfs.zfs.debug=1 shows that order in which geom
> providers are probed by zfs has apparently changed. Kernels that boot,
> show "guid match for provider /dev/gpt/<valid pool slice>" while
> failing kernels show "guid match for provider /dev/daX" -- the raw
> disks that are *not* the right geom provider for my pool slices. Beats
> me why ZFS picks raw disks over GPT partitions it should have.

Perhaps the kernel gpart code fails to recognize the partitions and thus ZFS
can't see them?

> Pool configuration:
> #zpool status z0
>   pool: z0
>  state: ONLINE
>   scan: scrub repaired 0 in 8h57m with 0 errors on Sat Oct 19 20:23:52 2013
> config:
> 
>         NAME                 STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         z0                   ONLINE       0     0     0
>           raidz2-0           ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da0p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da1p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da2p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da3p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da4p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da5p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da6p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/da7p4-z0     ONLINE       0     0     0
>         logs
>           mirror-1           ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/ssd-zil-z0   ONLINE       0     0     0
>             gpt/ssd1-zil-z0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>         cache
>           gpt/ssd1-l2arc-z0  ONLINE       0     0     0
> 
> errors: No known data errors
> 
> Here are screen captures from a failed boot:
> https://plus.google.com/photos/+ArtemBelevich/albums/5941857781891332785

I don't have permission to view this album.

> And here's boot log from successful boot on the same system:
> http://pastebin.com/XCwebsh7
> 
> Removing ZIL and L2ARC makes no difference -- r255763 still fails to mount root.
> 
> I'm thoroughly baffled. Is there's something wrong with the pool --
> some junk metadata somewhere on the disk that now screws with the root
> mounting? Changed order in geom provider enumeration? Something else?
> Any suggestions on what I can do to debug this further?

gpart.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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