Subject: Re: Xen, grub and suggestions for a hardware RAID?
To: Jason White <jdwhite@menelos.com>
From: Johan Ihren <johani@johani.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 02/08/2007 09:54:44
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>>>> So I'm lazy. Or stupid. Or both. I did try to follow the  
>>>> instructions
>>>> previously pointed at for how to configure RAIDframe with grub and
>>>> xen but I messed it up somehow. And on another box I installed
>>>> RAIDframe (w/o grub or xen) only to have it run fine, but always  
>>>> come
>>>> up with dirty parity after a reboot. Haven't figured out why yet
>>>> (suggestions?). So I'm clearly not up to speed on RAIDframe yet.
>>>
>>> Check that you have swapoff=YES.  Dirty parity on reboot is often a
>>> sign of swap holding the raid set open.
>>
>> Already have swapoff=YES. Sorry, should have mentioned that.
>
>   You will also get dirty parity on reboot if you have not  
> unconfigured all
>   ccd (and possibly cgd) devices.  See PR#35075 for a simple fix.

Thanks. Have no cgd's or ccd's, though. This is just a vanilla  
RAIDframe config w/ 2 disks in a RAID0 mirror config, root on raid0a,  
booting the std NetBSD way (i.e. no grub or anything). Still looking  
for causes for the dirty parity.

Apart from the parity everything is working just fine, but it would  
be nice to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Johan

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