From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 17:27:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE791065681 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from smtp.infidyne.com (ds9.infidyne.com [88.80.6.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C4A8FC1E for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from c-a916e555.03-51-73746f3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (c-a916e555.03-51-73746f3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.229.22.169]) by smtp.infidyne.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C05857ADE2; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:27:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, hartzell@alerce.com Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:28:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <18585.3903.895425.122613@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <18585.3903.895425.122613@almost.alerce.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart29072657.oddkThEjFf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200808061928.37001.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Cc: Subject: Re: ZFS Advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:12 -0000 --nextPart29072657.oddkThEjFf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > The AoC-SAT2-MV8 is based on the "Marvell Hercules-2 Rev. C0 SATA host > controller", which seems to be AKA 88SX6081, which is listed as > supported by the ata driver in 7.0-RELEASE. Has anyone had any ZFS > experience with it? Yes; it has been working quite fine for me with 7 up to a release-candidate= =2E=20 In 7.0-RELEASE you must disable the hptrr driver because it eats the device= =2E=20 See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/120615 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/120842 When I say "working fine", this is with 8 SATA drives (6 of them in a raidz= 2,=20 two of them for other stuff) and not having any issues like corruption,=20 timeouts or whatever else people have had with shaky controllers. However, I cannot speak to performance because it's a PCI-X card that I've= =20 plugged into a PCI slow, so throughput is limited by the PCI bus (and the=20 machine is otherwise not the fastest to begin with). Note that this is on 32 bit; haven't been able to try it on 64 bit because = I=20 the PCI-X card wouldn't work on the motherboard (again PCI, so it's=20 hit-and-miss) where I would otherwise have tried it. I'd love to find a buyable PCI-E version that also worked in FreeBSD... I'l= l=20 see if the link in your post contains any such hints. =2D-=20 / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org --nextPart29072657.oddkThEjFf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkiZ30QACgkQDNor2+l1i31dpACgnSgvtHU/zkIi9sJl4irUGcaa 5s4AoK/nkNVJqsgIGd7Wzxhj97mydh3p =EEas -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart29072657.oddkThEjFf--