I have a setup where I mirror disk using a remote ggate disk and a local disk. If the system is entirel quiescent, the rebuild will occur flawlessly, but if the system is in use, I often get the following during a rebuild (on the ggate client): GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5). ggate2[WRITE(offset=95143855104, length=8192)] GEOM_MIRROR: Device m2: provider ggate2 disconnected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device m2: rebuilding provider ggate2 stopped. GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5). ggate2[WRITE(offset=95143863296, length=8192)] Now... on both the server and the client, the ggate processes are still running. On the server, there are no kernel log messages. Specifically, there are no disk media errors. I gather ggate has no error recovery at all. Could a corrupted network packet be causing this? What do you all suspect the overall bit rate of inexpensive GigE hubs is? Dave. -- ===========================================================================|David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================