From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 23:05:05 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 18C27106564A for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:05:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD88B8FC0C for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:05:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAFB71F079; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:05:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id N91o1wJigyCw; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [35.9.44.65] (daemon.egr.msu.edu [35.9.44.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mcdouga9) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6B4F71F059; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <489A2E1F.6000405@egr.msu.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:05:03 -0400 From: Adam McDougall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Morgan References: <18585.3903.895425.122613@almost.alerce.com> <200808061928.37001.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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 23:05:05 -0000 Wes Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Peter Schuller wrote: > >>> 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. >> In 7.0-RELEASE you must disable the hptrr driver because it eats the >> device. >> See: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120615 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120842 >> >> When I say "working fine", this is with 8 SATA drives (6 of them in a >> raidz2, >> two of them for other stuff) and not having any issues like corruption, >> 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 >> plugged into a PCI slow, so throughput is limited by the PCI bus (and >> the >> 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 >> the PCI-X card wouldn't work on the motherboard (again PCI, so it's >> 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'll >> see if the link in your post contains any such hints. > > Hmmm... That PCI-X card is interesting. Supermicro also lists this: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm > > http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068e/index.html > > > Not much onboard ram, but it's PCI-E and even SAS. CDW lists it for > $155. That would be cheaper than buying a new board with a PCI-X slot > or two, and would even handle SAS drives. Claims to be based on the > "LSISAS 1068E SAS controller". Any idea if that is supported? I don't > see it listed in the mfi man page. LSI has a Linux driver for > download. That card looks like it would be just what I need. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > mpt2@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x010000 card=0x31501000 chip=0x00581000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)' device = 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068E -StorPort' class = mass storage subclass = SCSI mpt2: port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xfcbfc000-0xfcbfffff,0xfcbe0000-0xfcbeffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci8 da1 at mpt2 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da1: 300.000MB/s transfers da1: Command Queueing Enabled da1: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da2 at mpt2 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da2: 300.000MB/s transfers da2: Command Queueing Enabled da2: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da3 at mpt2 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da3: 300.000MB/s transfers da3: Command Queueing Enabled da3: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da4 at mpt2 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 da4: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da4: 300.000MB/s transfers da4: Command Queueing Enabled da4: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da5 at mpt2 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da5: 300.000MB/s transfers da5: Command Queueing Enabled da5: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da6 at mpt2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da6: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da6: 300.000MB/s transfers da6: Command Queueing Enabled da6: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da7 at mpt2 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da7: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da7: 300.000MB/s transfers da7: Command Queueing Enabled da7: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) da8 at mpt2 bus 0 target 7 lun 0 da8: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da8: 300.000MB/s transfers da8: Command Queueing Enabled da8: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da2s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da3s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da4s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da5s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da6s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da7s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 da8s1d ONLINE 0 0 0