gmirror array broken

[stukov]

Hello,

One of my desktops was equiped with two hard drives I put into a mirror with gmirror at setup time. Today, I saw that my mirror is broken. I only have one consumer in my provier array:

% gmirror status                                                                                                                                                                             15:54
      Name    Status  Components
mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad12

% gmirror list                                                15:43
Geom name: gm0
State: DEGRADED
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 1
SyncID: 1
ID: 748041724
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 119999999488 (112G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r5w5e6
Consumers:
1. Name: ad12
   Mediasize: 120000000000 (112G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 1
   SyncID: 1
   ID: 810888617

My other hard drive is ad10 and it doesn't look that broken...

% ls /dev/ad1                                                                                                                                                                                15:55
ad10%     ad10s1%   ad10s1a%  ad10s1b%  ad10s1c%  ad10s1d%  ad10s1e%  ad10s1f%  ad12%

How can I determine why my mirror broke and if my hard drive is broken?

Thanks.

[dk_netsvil]

have you tried gmirror activate gm0 ad10?

if there is a problem with your ad10 drive it may throw you an error like "Not all disks connected"

I've seen disks disappear from arrays when the disk failed - but typically they'd also fail to show up in /dev/. You might see some errors in /var/log/messages indicating bad inodes or something, but if this was a spontaneous failure there won't be anything there. It is also unusual that when you execute gmirror status you don't see the ad10 drive rebuilding. What's your /etc/fstab look like?

[stukov]

The command you gave me returned no output...

% sudo gmirror activate gm0 ad10
%

and gave no visible result:

% gmirror list                                                16:19
Geom name: gm0
State: DEGRADED
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 1
SyncID: 1
ID: 748041724
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 119999999488 (112G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r5w5e6
Consumers:
1. Name: ad12
   Mediasize: 120000000000 (112G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: DIRTY
   GenID: 1
   SyncID: 1
   ID: 810888617

[stukov]

:O Just found something interesting in my dmesg:

GEOM_MIRROR: Component ad10 (device gm0) broken, skipping.
GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot add disk ad10 to gm0 (error=22).

Funny, because this disk passed a badblocks test of 48 hours... Weird.

[dk_netsvil]

Try gmirror deactivate -v gm0 ad10 and then reactivating it. Maybe that'll flush out any gremlins. If that fails you could try recabling your harddrive physically, assuming you have another IDE or SATA connector available. If that fails try the gmirror remove command and re-adding it.

[stukov]

Thanks for the reply dk_netsvil. I had to do the following steps in order to re-insert my ad10 drive into the array:

% sudo gmirror forget gm0
% gmirror status
      Name    Status  Components
mirror/gm0  COMPLETE  ad12
% sudo gmirror remove gm0 ad10
gmirror: No such provider: ad10.
% sudo gmirror insert gm0 ad10
% gmirror status
      Name    Status  Components
mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad12
                      ad10 (0%)

As we are speaking, the array is rebuilding. Let's see how it goes and if it still working tomorrow...

Thanks!