Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:06:24 +1100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Weber?= <jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi0 timeout error zfs boot mount problem Message-ID: <508471E0.9010805@theiconic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <50830EA3.6020001@theiconic.com.au> References: <508090E8.4010300@theiconic.com.au> <5081CE05.1010108@theiconic.com.au> <50830EA3.6020001@theiconic.com.au>
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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
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