Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:55 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Marten <info@martenvijn.nl> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror Issues Message-ID: <CCE94E0D-76E0-443D-B249-E226FACA99CB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1174933173.874.22.camel@workstation.martenvijn.nl> References: <4606E163.9000506@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <1174933173.874.22.camel@workstation.martenvijn.nl>
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On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Marten wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:53 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: >> I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new >> 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following >> the >> directions, but I am not sure. >> > I have seen lockups, spontaneous reboots, corrupt filsystems on > 6.0 and > 6.2 > > trigger: > > 1.a disk io with rsync / scp > say coping > 100Gb > 1.b making backup with tar > 2. full filesystems > > setup: > -ata controller card > -two ata disks (250Gb) Try hunting around for the latest VIA test BIOS for the ITX M-series miniboards (check the viaarea.com web-forums, IIRC)...before updating to it, I tended to see fairly reproducible data corruption whenever accessing two or more IDE devices at the same time on a 600MHz VIA C3 ITX system. -- -Chuck
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