From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 18:59:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F31416A400 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E938B13C45A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:59:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2QIxuSA028728; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 1F8EC300BE; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:56 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-b0665bb00000538d-9a-4608182c75b8 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 0848C30020; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1174933173.874.22.camel@workstation.martenvijn.nl> References: <4606E163.9000506@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <1174933173.874.22.camel@workstation.martenvijn.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:55 -0700 To: Marten X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:59:57 -0000 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