From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 02:02:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEBF1065692; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:02:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sullrich@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459348FC14; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so737677eyd.9 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:02:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YiL7rMz3SBMcQbWa+4D8aDjBNkbIrCWjUxXiMDfJyWM=; b=hTeT8UtF6PXhYPMrD/cIbKAR0Os29ULip+5oxZvQEHOtHzGfLCpQFe0LGMUGwhCeL+ a0ikbiFnjywFV9Jemk51qg1wALa/YazgffciOWYSXpu9IKdQIP6H7zrqa+FjWjl/Qpt0 JkhPFy+2NyrHT0vN1c5ObrZZUJScaD7JqEUDM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Jh3MCC0iHM7AFOi3dYh90Zuqg3sNtqjlD9V6ISe3CF4CyvLC8BdGw72hTX1DjEiqul D56RwYFUbiBI3nK/Ej5NjdXNuKhraUIcQcr2F4k4FHNwjDZwb9Mk4clP/xLnub13CQqb ikpECTe1G8ddFTAcdYfVkWZCwvEqR5fMVBpIA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.55.136 with SMTP id u8mr1596001ebg.51.1258077772173; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:02:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4AFCBC46.4010209@jrv.org> References: <11167f520911111050j36dd94far667c81e6f5c18e69@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730911111352t12188bdajbca71bcf35a5beb5@mail.gmail.com> <11167f520911121044l74744c30u5a4d9ca008ab863c@mail.gmail.com> <11167f520911121101o403751ddmb544dfaf1c61bf1e@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730911121328t342b2268oceba3712b52511d4@mail.gmail.com> <4AFCBC46.4010209@jrv.org> From: Scott Ullrich Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:02:32 -0500 Message-ID: To: "James R. Van Artsdalen" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Help ZFS FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Write performance issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:02:53 -0000 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: > The Areca seems very sensitive to the disk drives used and I had to > abandon it. =A0It takes a day or so to get the card's firmware to sound > the on-board siren no matter which disk drives I tried. I ended up writing a small cron script to check the status of the array. It is located at http://cvs.pfsense.org/~sullrich/misc/rc_scripts/rc.check_areca if anyone else is interested. I also added a zfs watch script that runs from cron: http://cvs.pfsense.org/~sullrich/misc/rc_scripts/rc.check_zfs_degraded YMMV. Scott