From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 02:56:51 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 AB76F16A41A for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from postfix2-g20.free.fr (postfix2-g20.free.fr [212.27.60.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A4813C494 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by postfix2-g20.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15761DB2F25; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:50:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A073EA0FB; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:51:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEFA3EA0BD; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:51:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA2HpDgg011986; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:51:14 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:51:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200711011509.46094.thierry@herbelot.com> <20071102095206.GB24455@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20071102095206.GB24455@garage.freebsd.pl> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711021851.07043.thierry@herbelot.com> 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 Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:56:51 -0000 Le Friday 02 November 2007, Pawel Jakub Dawidek a écrit : > > 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). > > Just to clarify. There is no regression in gmirror. This is ATA > problem/bug, which was reported so many times already. agreed (as I said initially : the Promise+SATA combination seems suspicious) > > > PS : I was also burnt by the forced conversion of gmirror metadata from > > v3 to v4, which makes it tricky to backtrack to 6.x, once a 7.x kernel + > > gmirror has been booted once. > > I'm not happy with with metadata auto-upgrade, but it just makes things > so much easier. You can always boot your 6.x to single-user mode using > disk directly (it should not change anything on disk) and just run > 'gmirror label' again. This is exactly what I did after remembering that initial "providers" are still bootable (I could also have prepared a non-gmirrored install for Releng_7, but this was not mentioned in UPDATING) Thanks for your good work TfH