From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 18:35:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289821065672 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7E98FC0C for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0DB50843; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:43 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kjeltA1ix+0e; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9E550842; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 68.64.144.211 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dan) by nyi.unixathome.org with HTTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:35:41 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4B7372D7.9060108@incunabulum.net> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B71490B.6030602@langille.org> <4B71AED5.4030002@wensing.org> <201002091949.o19JntPo009017@apollo.backplane.com> <4B723DF9.3070105@langille.org> <4B730B94.1050205@comcast.net> <4B7372D7.9060108@incunabulum.net> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:35:41 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" To: "Bruce Simpson" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage 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: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:35:44 -0000 On Wed, February 10, 2010 10:00 pm, Bruce Simpson wrote: > On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote: >> >> I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a >> concern. Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the device, pull, replace with >> a new one, glabel, and zfs replace. It seems to work fine as long as >> nothing is accessing the device you are replacing (otherwise you will >> get a kernel panic a few minutes down the line). mav@FreeBSD.org has >> also committed a large patch set to 9-CURRENT which implements >> "proper" SATA/AHCI hot-plug support and error-recovery through CAM. > > I've been running with this patch in 8-STABLE for well over a week now > on my desktop w/o issues; I am using main disk for dev, and eSATA disk > pack for light multimedia use. MFC to 8.x? -- Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/