Re: more about softraid

2010-10-23 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:20:10PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Softraid is not a volume manager. We don't support adding, removing chunks > after creation time. I'll take diffs for this however this is pretty far from > trivial. The one piece of information I found a bit unclear in the manua

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
n't be improved but that bit is IMO pretty > obvious. Obvious it probably is, yet adding the word 'final' for the device argument in the manpage description would perhaps make it even more obvious. :-) > > On Oct 23, 2010, at 23:07, Niels Poppe wrote: > > >

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:09:55AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > > > > .. would have expected > > "bioctl -R sd1 softraid0" for the case below. > > What slice is being rebuilt onto? Well...

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
> >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > >>> > >>> .. would have expected > >>> "bioctl -R sd1 softraid0" for the case below. > >> > >> What slice is being rebuilt onto? > > > > We

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Oct 24, 2010, at 17:54, Niels Poppe wrote: > > > I have (err, had) this working array: > > > > # bioctl softraid0 > > Volume Status Size Device > > softraid0 0 Online

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 09:09:52PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > odd. does dmesg spit anything useful out? actually, no. for the usb stick pulling out the machine: sd0 detached scsibus0 detached umass0 detached after that, because i accessed the softraid filesystem: softraid0: retrying read

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Niels Poppe
Just to be complete and honest, i think i should reveil as well that it is all built and installed from source, and kernel and userland have slightly different build dates: # ls -ld /bsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8916825 Oct 13 04:18 /bsd and userland is built just a bit later: # ls -ld /sbin/b

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Niels Poppe [ni...@netbox.org] wrote: > > > > # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 > > bioctl: Target sd0a: target not specified > > > > I ran into this just the other day, > > bioctl -R sd0a sd2 didn&#

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:39:27PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Are the partition sizes on sd0a/sd1a (I assume the are mirrored) the same? > What does disklabel show for the RAIDed disks? > sd0 and sd2 are exactly identical # disklabel sd0 # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: USB

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Niels Poppe
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:02:43AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: > > sd0 and sd2 are exactly identical correction: sd0 and sd1