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Date:      Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:54:46 +0100
From:      Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: zfs receive leads to a stuck server
Message-ID:  <60B441B0-F5C8-417D-95CF-23ED52E252F0@ultra-secure.de>
In-Reply-To: <4707908B-4868-4AA6-ADD6-D24121EFAE38@ultra-secure.de>
References:  <4707908B-4868-4AA6-ADD6-D24121EFAE38@ultra-secure.de>

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> Am 01.10.2016 um 18:02 schrieb Rainer Duffner =
<rainer@ultra-secure.de>:
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> Hi,
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> I posted this before, but I didn=E2=80=99t really get an answer and =
I=E2=80=99m still looking for ways to debug this.
>=20
> I have to servers (HP DL 380 Gen8, 192 GB RAM, 6C CPU).
> I=E2=80=99ve outfitted them with HP=E2=80=99s H22x cards (really OEMed =
9207-8x, three altogether) that I recently cross-flashed to LSI=E2=80=99s =
latest firmware.



And it turns out, using anything branded by HP is just asking for ulcers =
and headaches.

We replaced said HBAs with LSI^WAvago^WBroadcom HBAs - and everything =
started working as it should.
There are still hangs at 03:00 and 04:00 (when the snapshots that got =
deleted on the master get deleted on the slave) - but that's not really =
a problem because they are much shorter than before and nobody is using =
the system at that time.

So, while the H22x-cards are =E2=80=9Eclose enough to a LSI2308-based =
card so that the driver actually thinks it=E2=80=99s a 2308 - they are =
in fact not.

Also, with the original LSI cards, you can use LSI=E2=80=99s FreeBSD =
flash utility and have a far better life overall.





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