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Old 6th June 2008
lil_elvis2000 lil_elvis2000 is offline
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Well I've had further problems. I was extracting files from the large gzip and the mirror crashed again. This time it was ad4.
I did a "gmirror forget" and then tried to re-insert ad4. but could not..ad4 did not appear in the /dev folder either.
So I did a reboot. and to my horror..gmirror remounted ad4 , but not ad6, in a DEGRADED state.
and when I did a gmirror status..the screen then filled and poured a stream of g_vfs_done ERROR messages. I had to hit the power switch.

I managed to get the system back up and unmounted the mirror and destroyed it...a bit tricky as gmirror kept remounting it after a few seconds. I had to quickly do a "gmirror unload".

So after making a backup. I then relabelled
gmirror label -b split -s 2048 dat ad4 ad6
and newfs'd the mirror.
newfs /dev/mirror.dat -U

mounted and tried to copy the data back. The mirror broke again. I rebuilt the mirror and this time I left off soft-updates as I suspect there is a problem there. Remounted and copied back all the data and the mirror held together.

Don't know if that is a coincedence or not. Is there an issue with soft-updates and gmirror?
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