From nobody Thu Apr 13 22:18:28 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4PyDW83Nqkz44lbt; Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Received: from mail0.time-domain.net (mail0.time-domain.net [62.3.122.138]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4PyDW80Z1jz3nJD; Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from mail0.time-domain.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail0.time-domain.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 33DMIX8N055274; Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:18:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) Received: from localhost (andy-tds@localhost) by mail0.time-domain.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 33DMIUpM055271; Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:18:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from andy@time-domain.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mail0.time-domain.net: andy-tds owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:18:28 +0100 (BST) From: andy thomas X-X-Sender: andy-tds@mail0.time-domain.net To: Yuri cc: Thierry Thomas , egoitz@ramattack.net, Freebsd fs , Freebsd hackers , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M2 NVME support In-Reply-To: <26febe50-a854-08df-13f9-d1629436c1f3@aetern.org> Message-ID: References: <26febe50-a854-08df-13f9-d1629436c1f3@aetern.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (BSF 395 2020-01-19) List-Id: Filesystems List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-fs List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="951801389-1621161841-1681424313=:54738" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4PyDW80Z1jz3nJD X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13037, ipnet:62.3.64.0/18, country:GB] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --951801389-1621161841-1681424313=:54738 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Yuri wrote: > andy thomas wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Thierry Thomas wrote: >> >>> Le jeu. 13 avr. 23 ? 13:25:36 +0200, egoitz@ramattack.net >>> >>> ?crivait : >>> >>>> Hi!, >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>>> We are in the process of buying new hardware for use with FreeBSD and >>>> ZFS. We are planning whether to buy M2 NVME disks or just SATA SSD disks >>>> (probably Samsung PM* ones). How is you experience with them?. Do you >>>> recommend one over the another?. Is perhaps better support from some of >>>> them from a specificic version to newer?. Or do they perhaps work better >>>> with some specific disk controller?. >>> >>> I have a bad experience, the problem seems to be caused by the driver. >>> >>> See . >> >> I thought I would mention I have been using a WD Blue SA510 250GB M2 >> NVME SSD mounted on a PCIe to NVME adapter card under FBSD 13.1 for some >> months now with no problems or any special drivers being installed. > > Only it looks like it's actually SATA and not NVMe, based on the output? Yes, you are right! My apologies, please disregard that post. Andy >> The server is a Dell PowerEdge 430 1U server fitted with four SATA disks >> in a ZFS pool, with a 4 GB partition on each disk being used for the >> swap (since using SSDs for swap space can wear them out quite quickly). >> >> Attached is a screenshot showing FreeBSD version, the NVME SSD type, >> mounted SSD partitions, the server make & model and some info about the >> spinning disks too (there is a known issue with the built-in Megaraid >> driver in the FreeBSD 13.1 kernel not working with the camcontrol >> utility nor converting disk device names like /dev/mfisyspd0 to >> traditional names such as /dev/ada0 but these controllers & disks do >> work with FBSD 13.1 as you cna see from the zpool output). > > ---------------------------- Andy Thomas, Time Domain Systems Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626 http://www.time-domain.co.uk --951801389-1621161841-1681424313=:54738--