From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 21 22:06:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651566D2 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:06:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au) Received: from exprod6og116.obsmtp.com (exprod6og116.obsmtp.com [64.18.1.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0B258FC14 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-da0-f72.google.com ([209.85.210.72]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob116.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUIRx5XOqTqhUNNr456BTrMx2tkx5fScP@postini.com; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:06:36 PDT Received: by mail-da0-f72.google.com with SMTP id r28so3662925daj.7 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=DGQzd3fb/9N4ZtqluZs0mL05aeGzre+gXzmSlWQm6T8=; b=cHIO+3Tr/mNtxo3OLnYPbrSUIGLTNis9LEx3gWcI5ije6o3mYPvSMIUDPdk1F7Vbp/ BscL7LKf3nTDmq0bqXZ9LdF/txuJWr30XwMkL/qzwOVw0r0dfAvByG/o+p3730OemtTl GGE+RivroYYmOLB6NtruOTw9lm5NEvg3NELmGlVC4SwqBKDJl2ie7XkeTDL71mVyAABd tQbgPCfP7UdGXHrbRuZHW9tBz38eFTzGAQai3xECpq210uzISjzer1Q7LnW678auOIhQ P37ofQk762juuTbQ/D+RJK6KjluKAZmOaTUsgZO/X2c2FL3c04cSV0QiWZKKtBxJykKQ AQSQ== Received: by 10.68.218.132 with SMTP id pg4mr24882230pbc.100.1350857189580; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.218.132 with SMTP id pg4mr24882217pbc.100.1350857189406; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.24.157] ([202.126.107.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v9sm4787486paz.6.2012.10.21.15.06.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <508471E0.9010805@theiconic.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:06:24 +1100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Weber?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi0 timeout error zfs boot mount problem References: <508090E8.4010300@theiconic.com.au> <5081CE05.1010108@theiconic.com.au> <50830EA3.6020001@theiconic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <50830EA3.6020001@theiconic.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmEqLxp8f7WrW+gaSxFsjbkk8dySUCZgwRiS62NxW5iO6/HzZjiQDVFT5+nBeETJnzQxts3QpyJBNOMb3+Wzu3O2HDRnt4VxH9U7LVwPvfKH8yQ7gMQAoHxgj5xGxZxWb8RmQP35O7FGak9xd9+E1NSHpouHA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:06:37 -0000 This is still a problem for me, is anyone there? :) I have tried the following at the bootime loader. vfs.zfs.zil_disable="1" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" vfs.zfs.txg.timeout="5" Any other suggestions on how to get this zpool to import and mount again? Thanks On 21/10/12 07:50, Jurgen Weber wrote: > Hi > > Lastly, is there a way at boot time, some sysctl's or something I can > set to bring zfs to a minimalistic state? Turn off features, etc to > get this to mount? > > Any ideas appreciated. > > Thanks > > Jurgen > On 20/10/2012 9:02 AM, Jurgen Weber wrote: >> Guys >> >> Some more details on this, some insight would be greatly appreciated. >> >> As my day wore on trying to get this zpool to import or mount I have >> learnt a few things. I think over time this issue has came about as >> more and more data was added to the file systems. >> >> Some further details: >> >> Its a 8 disk raidz pool that the system boots from as well. The disk >> are all 2TB. >> The server has 16GB Of RAM, I notcied the day before this happen the >> server was struggling with its RAM griding to a halt and dumping its >> RAM. >> The issue is not hardware because I found another server (same one) >> swapped the harddrives out took another 8GB of RAM and I have the >> same problem. >> The main data file systems have dedup and gzip compression on. >> >> I have booted from open/Oracle Solars 11 adn attempted to import and >> the Solaris live CD will not import either. In the Solaris system the >> disk detach from the system. >> >> I get the feeling that ZFS is hitting some root limit when attempting >> to mount and its not finishing the job. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jurgen >> >> On 19/10/2012 10:29 AM, Jürgen Weber wrote: >>> Team >>> >>> I have googled around for a solution and I see a lot of posts about >>> firmware versions and patches for FreeBSD 8.*. >>> >>> I have a FreeBSD 9.1rc1 system, which was beta1 orginally and has >>> been running for months. >>> >>> Now it will not boot, I get the following: >>> >>> "Trying to mount root from zfs:tank/root []..... >>> mfi0: COMMAND 0Xffffff8000cb83530 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >>> (this just repeats). >>> >>> I have not seen this error before during normal runtime, _only_ >>> during boot. >>> >>> Originally when I had the problem I could boot off a USB stick >>> (9.1beta1 or rc1), run a 'zpool import -f tank' and it would work on >>> the livecd. Rebooting and the main system would work. >>> >>> This time this work around does not work for me. When I am on the >>> USB stick I can run a 'zpool import' and all of the disk are >>> recognised, the pool is recognised and the file system is healthy. >>> >>> The Card is a H700 PERC, with 12.10.3 firmware in a Dell R515. >>> Running FreeBSD 9.1-RC1, latest zfs and zpool versions. >>> >>> I have tried disabling the cache (mfiutil cache xxx disable). I have >>> also gone into the Card settings and changed under advanced settings >>> "adaptive forward read" to "read only". >>> >>> Any help, appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> > -- Jürgen Weber Systems Engineer IT Infrastructure Team Leader THE ICONIC | E jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au | www.theiconic.com.au