From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 23:17:18 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 BE61E16A421 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:17:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D028913C4BD for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.184.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id lA1MCHUv024030 ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 164 Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id lA1MCGZ3015118 ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:12:16 +0100 (MET) Received: (from arno@localhost) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id lA1MCGWm015115; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:12:16 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from arno) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" References: <200711011509.46094.thierry@herbelot.com> <20071101190505.GJ1580@over-yonder.net> From: "Arno J. Klaassen" Date: 01 Nov 2007 23:12:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20071101190505.GJ1580@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4659/Thu Nov 1 17:24:40 2007 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 472A4F41.005 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! 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 23:17:18 -0000 "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: > 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... Seems like Alexander Sabourenkov found a possible issue : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/115337 Arno > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >