From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 20:06:18 2007 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 3F98F16A543 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from optimus.centralmiss.com (ns.centralmiss.com [206.156.254.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4067813C4B7 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:06:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by optimus.centralmiss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA5D28BB0; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:05:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id E104261C43; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:05:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:05:05 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Thierry Herbelot Message-ID: <20071101190505.GJ1580@over-yonder.net> References: <200711011509.46094.thierry@herbelot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711011509.46094.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16-fullermd.4 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression with gmirror, Promise SATA and 7.0 ? 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: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:06:18 -0000 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:09:45PM +0100 I heard the voice of Thierry Herbelot, and lo! it spake thus: > > Thus, it seems that the combination of this Promise controller and > the SATA disks has issues (there was a thread about Promise > controllers and ZFS, but with no clear conclusion). See (and probably a number of other posts). This has been an issue for me with -CURRENT (and so now RELENG_7) early this year. This box is still running RELENG_6 (and I'm writing this mail on it), and will take a pounding on the drives all day long without the slightest tic. But put -CURRENT/RELENG_7 on it, and it's lucky to live long enough to get into multi-user mode, can be killed instantly with a find, and will eventually keel over even with nothing particular happening (where 'eventually' is measured in a single-digit number of minutes). Rather annoying, as I have several machines with Promise controllers I'd like to move to 7.x. But sadly, they need to access their hard drives occasionally, so... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.