From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 20:57:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E373816A46B; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Received: from mail.laaco.net (mail.laaco.net [38.99.244.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4D713C455; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Received: from localhost (www@localhost.laaco.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.laaco.net (8.13.3/8.13.4) with SMTP id l5SKZ8sm023140; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Message-Id: <200706282035.l5SKZ8sm023140@mail.laaco.net> Received-On-Port: 25 X-Port: 25 To: , , From: "=?UTF-8?B?R3JlZyBILg==?= " Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:35:08 PDT Errors-To: "=?UTF-8?B?R3JlZyBILg==?= " X-Priority: 3 (Normal) User-Agent: NOCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 38.99.244.3 Cc: Subject: Qlogic 2432, Multipath, Dynamic LUNs, and NTFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?UTF-8?B?R3JlZyBILg==?= List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:58:00 -0000 Hello All, I've just installed a new HP BladeSystem with BL460c blades, connected via dual on-board Qlogic 2432 Fibre Channel controllers, to an EVA4000 SAN. After getting the isp driver from 6.2-Stable, everything runs very smoothly. Now, I've been asked to use our very stable FreeBSD blades to backup the often flakey Windows 2003 Server drives. Both the FreeBSD blades and the Windows blades have their own LUNs on the EVA4000 SAN. To do this, I've created a snapshot of one of the non-compressed NTFS drives on the EVA, and presented it to the FreeBSD system, dynamically. After doing a camcontrol rescan all, both a camcontrol devlist, or an ls /dev/ntfs crash the system. Because of the silly HP blade environment, I don't have access to the console during the crashes. I also haven't found any signs in the logs. Here is an additional quirk. When the system comes back up, the snapshot LUN show up, and seems to mount properly with mount -t ntfs. I can't get ntfs-3g to work properly when loaded as a package, and the port won't compile. The strange thing is that an ls of the NTFS snapshot shows a file that is 7,653,312,512 bytes, but cat | bzip2 (and dd) only reads 3,358,345,216 bytes. Reading a larger file of 50,135,415,808 bytes crashes the system. These are the files from the SAN snapshot of the NTFS drive: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7653312512 Jun 26 20:31 MV-C.bkf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50135415808 Jun 26 21:28 MV-E.bkf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 575225856 Jun 26 20:12 MV-SysState.bkf Here's what happens when I try to read them: Copying MV-SysState.bkf Wed Jun 27 17:58:00 PDT 2007 (stdin): 2.792:1, 2.866 bits/byte, 64.18% saved, 575225856 in, 206056048 out Copying MV-C.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:01:08 PDT 2007 (stdin): 4.047:1, 1.977 bits/byte, 75.29% saved, 3358345216 in, 829840937 out Copying MV-E.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:19:34 PDT 2007 (stdin): If this is the wrong list, I'll happily send it to the proper list if someone tells me what it is. Other interesting facts are that each LUN presented by the SAN appears 4 times, once on each FC port (as was expected), and GEOM seems to handle it just fine. Mounts reference the GEOM label such as /dev/ufs/mail2root or /dev/ntfs/MV-Backup. Any suggestions of how to dynamically mount/unmount FC LUNs, and faithfully read files from an NTFS file system? Thanks everybody, Greg H. ___________________________________ NOCC, http://nocc.sourceforge.net From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 05:28:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BB916A469 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@plot.uz) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FA513C4AE for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@plot.uz) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so293911uge for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.112.16 with SMTP id k16mr5382187buc.1183093214828; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plot.uz ( [83.221.180.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k5sm13793485nfh.2007.06.28.22.00.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:00:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=FROM_EXCESS_BASE64 autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Report: * 1.1 FROM_EXCESS_BASE64 From: base64 encoded unnecessarily Received: from localhost by plot.uz (MDaemon PRO v9.5.5) with DomainPOP id md50000003409.msg for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:00:46 +0500 Delivered-To: aleksey@plot.uz Received: by 10.100.111.17 with SMTP id j17cs334784anc; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.15.1 with SMTP id 1mr1962857wao.1183064325046; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [69.147.83.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j34si5191360waf.2007.06.28.13.58.44; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org designates 69.147.83.53 as permitted sender) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [69.147.83.54]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640DB3348D; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C2716A4F0; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org) X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E373816A46B; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Received: from mail.laaco.net (mail.laaco.net [38.99.244.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4D713C455; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:57:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Received: from localhost (www@localhost.laaco.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.laaco.net (8.13.3/8.13.4) with SMTP id l5SKZ8sm023140; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@laaco.net) Message-Id: <200706282035.l5SKZ8sm023140@mail.laaco.net> Received-On-Port: 25 X-Port: 25 To: , , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) User-Agent: NOCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 38.99.244.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Errors-To: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Envelope-From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Spam-Processed: plot.uz, Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:01:13 +0500 From: =?UTF-8?B?R3JlZyBILg==?= Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: Qlogic 2432, Multipath, Dynamic LUNs, and NTFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Reply-To: =?UTF-8?B?R3JlZyBILg==?= List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:28:58 -0000 Hello All, I've just installed a new HP BladeSystem with BL460c blades, connected via dual on-board Qlogic 2432 Fibre Channel controllers, to an EVA4000 SAN. After getting the isp driver from 6.2-Stable, everything runs very smoothly. Now, I've been asked to use our very stable FreeBSD blades to backup the often flakey Windows 2003 Server drives. Both the FreeBSD blades and the Windows blades have their own LUNs on the EVA4000 SAN. To do this, I've created a snapshot of one of the non-compressed NTFS drives on the EVA, and presented it to the FreeBSD system, dynamically. After doing a camcontrol rescan all, both a camcontrol devlist, or an ls /dev/ntfs crash the system. Because of the silly HP blade environment, I don't have access to the console during the crashes. I also haven't found any signs in the logs. Here is an additional quirk. When the system comes back up, the snapshot LUN show up, and seems to mount properly with mount -t ntfs. I can't get ntfs-3g to work properly when loaded as a package, and the port won't compile. The strange thing is that an ls of the NTFS snapshot shows a file that is 7,653,312,512 bytes, but cat | bzip2 (and dd) only reads 3,358,345,216 bytes. Reading a larger file of 50,135,415,808 bytes crashes the system. These are the files from the SAN snapshot of the NTFS drive: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7653312512 Jun 26 20:31 MV-C.bkf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50135415808 Jun 26 21:28 MV-E.bkf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 575225856 Jun 26 20:12 MV-SysState.bkf Here's what happens when I try to read them: Copying MV-SysState.bkf Wed Jun 27 17:58:00 PDT 2007 (stdin): 2.792:1, 2.866 bits/byte, 64.18% saved, 575225856 in, 206056048 out Copying MV-C.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:01:08 PDT 2007 (stdin): 4.047:1, 1.977 bits/byte, 75.29% saved, 3358345216 in, 829840937 out Copying MV-E.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:19:34 PDT 2007 (stdin): If this is the wrong list, I'll happily send it to the proper list if someone tells me what it is. Other interesting facts are that each LUN presented by the SAN appears 4 times, once on each FC port (as was expected), and GEOM seems to handle it just fine. Mounts reference the GEOM label such as /dev/ufs/mail2root or /dev/ntfs/MV-Backup. Any suggestions of how to dynamically mount/unmount FC LUNs, and faithfully read files from an NTFS file system? Thanks everybody, Greg H. ___________________________________ NOCC, http://nocc.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 12:08:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402AC16A468 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEC013C458 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 79277 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jun 2007 11:41:48 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 79271, pid: 79273, t: 2.3276s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:43/d:3545 spam: 3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?212.71.117.70?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.70) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Jun 2007 11:41:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4684EFF7.5060303@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:41:43 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg H." References: <200706282035.l5SKZ8sm023140@mail.laaco.net> In-Reply-To: <200706282035.l5SKZ8sm023140@mail.laaco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qlogic 2432, Multipath, Dynamic LUNs, and NTFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:08:31 -0000 Greg H. wrote: > Hello All, > > I've just installed a new HP BladeSystem with BL460c blades, connected via > dual on-board Qlogic 2432 Fibre Channel controllers, to an EVA4000 SAN. After > getting the isp driver from 6.2-Stable, everything runs very smoothly. > > Now, I've been asked to use our very stable FreeBSD blades to backup the often > flakey Windows 2003 Server drives. Both the FreeBSD blades and the Windows > blades have their own LUNs on the EVA4000 SAN. > > To do this, I've created a snapshot of one of the non-compressed NTFS drives > on the EVA, and presented it to the FreeBSD system, dynamically. After > doing a camcontrol rescan all, both a camcontrol devlist, or an ls /dev/ntfs > crash the system. Because of the silly HP blade environment, I don't have > access to the console during the crashes. I also haven't found any signs > in the logs. > I've only played with BL20 G2 (and FreeBSD) briefly. I also witnessed some crashes in such cases. Mr. Jacobs is currently writing a complete replacement of the driver that is supposed to be able to also properly function in MPIO environments. > Here is an additional quirk. When the system comes back up, the snapshot LUN > show up, and seems to mount properly with mount -t ntfs. I can't get ntfs-3g > to work properly when loaded as a package, and the port won't compile. > > The strange thing is that an ls of the NTFS snapshot shows a file that > is 7,653,312,512 bytes, but cat | bzip2 (and dd) only reads 3,358,345,216 bytes. > Reading a larger file of 50,135,415,808 bytes crashes the system. > > When you create a LUN, you have to choose which OS you want to place on it. EVA4000 has provisions for Windoze, Linux, Solaris and VMware (IIRC). This may alter the way, the LUNs are presented to the hosts - I'm not sure it is a reason for your problems. > These are the files from the SAN snapshot of the NTFS drive: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7653312512 Jun 26 20:31 MV-C.bkf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50135415808 Jun 26 21:28 MV-E.bkf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 575225856 Jun 26 20:12 MV-SysState.bkf > > Here's what happens when I try to read them: > Copying MV-SysState.bkf > Wed Jun 27 17:58:00 PDT 2007 > (stdin): 2.792:1, 2.866 bits/byte, 64.18% saved, 575225856 in, 206056048 out > > Copying MV-C.bkf > Wed Jun 27 18:01:08 PDT 2007 > (stdin): 4.047:1, 1.977 bits/byte, 75.29% saved, 3358345216 in, 829840937 out > > Copying MV-E.bkf > Wed Jun 27 18:19:34 PDT 2007 > (stdin): > > If this is the wrong list, I'll happily send it to the proper list if someone > tells me what it is. > > You could try the HP ITRC forums. > Other interesting facts are that each LUN presented by the SAN appears 4 times, > once on each FC port (as was expected), and GEOM seems to handle it just fine. > Mounts reference the GEOM label such as /dev/ufs/mail2root or /dev/ntfs/MV-Backup. > > That's the multi-pathing. See my above comment about a forthcomming driver. I would recommend disabling multi-pathing for systems that are not MPIO-capable. > Any suggestions of how to dynamically mount/unmount FC LUNs, and faithfully > read files from an NTFS file system? > I'm sorry - I can't really relate any experience to your primary problem. BTW: Despite the name, freebsd-isp is not about the isp(4)-driver ;-) It's about FreeBSD @ work at Internet Service Providers. cheers, Rainer From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 15:43:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A9516A400; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D4813C448; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l5TFhNjS009377 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:43:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-24-10-12-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.10.12.194]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l5TFhM8Q020294 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:43:22 -0700 Message-ID: <4685289F.20808@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:43:27 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rainer Duffner References: <200706282035.l5SKZ8sm023140@mail.laaco.net> <4684EFF7.5060303@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <4684EFF7.5060303@ultra-secure.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.2.304607, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.29.82233 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: "Greg H." , freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qlogic 2432, Multipath, Dynamic LUNs, and NTFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:24 -0000 Rainer Duffner wrote: > Greg H. wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I've just installed a new HP BladeSystem with BL460c blades, >> connected via dual on-board Qlogic 2432 Fibre Channel controllers, to >> an EVA4000 SAN. After getting the isp driver from 6.2-Stable, >> everything runs very smoothly. >> >> Now, I've been asked to use our very stable FreeBSD blades to backup >> the often flakey Windows 2003 Server drives. Both the FreeBSD blades >> and the Windows blades have their own LUNs on the EVA4000 SAN. >> >> To do this, I've created a snapshot of one of the non-compressed NTFS >> drives on the EVA, and presented it to the FreeBSD system, >> dynamically. After doing a camcontrol rescan all, both a camcontrol >> devlist, or an ls /dev/ntfs crash the system. Because of the silly >> HP blade environment, I don't have access to the console during the >> crashes. I also haven't found any signs in the logs. > > I've only played with BL20 G2 (and FreeBSD) briefly. > I also witnessed some crashes in such cases. > > Mr. Jacobs is currently writing a complete replacement of the driver > that is supposed to be able to also properly function in MPIO > environments. > >> Here is an additional quirk. When the system comes back up, the >> snapshot LUN show up, and seems to mount properly with mount -t >> ntfs. I can't get ntfs-3g to work properly when loaded as a package, >> and the port won't compile. >> >> The strange thing is that an ls of the NTFS snapshot shows a file >> that is 7,653,312,512 bytes, but cat | bzip2 (and dd) only reads >> 3,358,345,216 bytes. >> Reading a larger file of 50,135,415,808 bytes crashes the system. >> >> > Possibly cluster size? If so, that's a really inefficient amount to be shown. The other thing is that the methods used to setup the fs may not be correct, such that normal Unix utils will fail at reading the right amount. > When you create a LUN, you have to choose which OS you want to place > on it. EVA4000 has provisions for Windoze, Linux, Solaris and VMware > (IIRC). > This may alter the way, the LUNs are presented to the hosts - I'm not > sure it is a reason for your problems. > > >> These are the files from the SAN snapshot of the NTFS drive: >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7653312512 Jun 26 20:31 MV-C.bkf >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50135415808 Jun 26 21:28 MV-E.bkf >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 575225856 Jun 26 20:12 MV-SysState.bkf >> >> Here's what happens when I try to read them: >> Copying MV-SysState.bkf Wed Jun 27 17:58:00 PDT 2007 >> (stdin): 2.792:1, 2.866 bits/byte, 64.18% saved, 575225856 in, >> 206056048 out >> >> Copying MV-C.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:01:08 PDT 2007 >> (stdin): 4.047:1, 1.977 bits/byte, 75.29% saved, 3358345216 in, >> 829840937 out >> >> Copying MV-E.bkf Wed Jun 27 18:19:34 PDT 2007 >> (stdin): >> >> If this is the wrong list, I'll happily send it to the proper list if >> someone tells me what it is. >> >> > > > You could try the HP ITRC forums. > > >> Other interesting facts are that each LUN presented by the SAN >> appears 4 times, once on each FC port (as was expected), and GEOM >> seems to handle it just fine. >> Mounts reference the GEOM label such as /dev/ufs/mail2root or >> /dev/ntfs/MV-Backup. >> >> > > > That's the multi-pathing. See my above comment about a forthcomming > driver. > I would recommend disabling multi-pathing for systems that are not > MPIO-capable. > > >> Any suggestions of how to dynamically mount/unmount FC LUNs, and >> faithfully read files from an NTFS file system? >> > > > I'm sorry - I can't really relate any experience to your primary problem. > > > BTW: Despite the name, freebsd-isp is not about the isp(4)-driver ;-) > It's about FreeBSD @ work at Internet Service Providers. > > > cheers, > Rainer -Garrett