From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 08:56:24 2009 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 DCD8A106564A for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: from relay0.salford.ac.uk (relay0.salford.ac.uk [146.87.0.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 492188FC0C for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 2585 invoked by uid 98); 26 Mar 2009 08:56:22 -0000 Received: from 146.87.255.121 by relay0.salford.ac.uk (envelope-from , uid 401) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.94.2/9169. spamassassin: 3.2.4. Clear:RC:1(146.87.255.121):. Processed in 0.114443 secs); 26 Mar 2009 08:56:22 -0000 Received: from rust.salford.ac.uk (HELO rust.salford.ac.uk) (146.87.255.121) by relay0.salford.ac.uk (qpsmtpd/0.3x.614) with SMTP; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 60330 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Mar 2009 08:56:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Mar 2009 08:56:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "Mark Powell" To: ticso@cicely.de In-Reply-To: <20090325183831.GD16409@cicely7.cicely.de> Message-ID: <20090326084726.N87213@rust.salford.ac.uk> References: <49BE4EC1.90207@163.com> <20090320102824.W75873@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20090320152737.D641@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20090325105613.55624rkkgf2xkr6s@webmail.leidinger.net> <20090325103721.G67233@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20090325135528.21416hzpozpjst8g@webmail.leidinger.net> <20090325125930.U73916@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20090325152128.2389990h7v6a02co@webmail.leidinger.net> <20090325152940.GB16409@cicely7.cicely.de> <20090325180054.L87213@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20090325183831.GD16409@cicely7.cicely.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Alexander Leidinger , kevin , FreeBSD Current , Mark Powell , Daniel Eriksson Subject: Re: Apparently spurious ZFS CRC errors (was Re: ZFS data error without reasons) 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, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:25 -0000 On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Bernd Walter wrote: > WC is on, prefetch is off, but only because it had bad performance with > MySQL. > Drives are Serial ATA II Hmmm. Strange. My previous array was primarily WD5000AAKS, but I didn't have these issues with those. I actually had 6xWD5000AAKS and 6 more old drives (200GB, 3x250GB, 320GB & 400GB) joined together with gstripe and gconcat to make 3x500GB, for a total 9x500GB RAIDZ2. With some pretty old PATA Maxtor 200GB and 250GB in there; spread across ICH9, JMB363 and Sil3132; I'd've expected CRC issues then. I scrubbed my pool every week for 18 months or so, with no errors to report. However, it's only since I got these 6xWD10EADS that problems have occurred. Perhaps the higher throughput of these drives is highlighting issues elsewhere? > I don't know if it is with the drives, but other reasons are less > likely in my opinion. > The system is located in a data center and since I only get a few errors > I decided to live with it and not to debug it further. I've decided to split my drives in two pools; 5x500GB RAIDZ1 of WD5000AAKS and the 6x1TB RAIDZ2 of WD10EADS. I'll see if they perform differently. I'm using the defaults of WC on, with all ZFS options enabled. Cheers. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Information & Learning Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 6843 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key