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[115.70.35.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm1670814pav.15.2012.10.19.15.02.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5081CE05.1010108@theiconic.com.au> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:02:45 +1100 From: Jurgen Weber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; 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> In-Reply-To: <508090E8.4010300@theiconic.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmmhZEpLmm79ip1eORr4POK41OB8vXtWzs84bO59BKSixt0oPyjjDtPw6TERSmsmm/COXpVmLwV1BJgdUFR4JXeV4Q5F6uwEdbkC/WW79ATM1hrG94/wxW1Py7u/JSX9EQ0LcG0twEnjrtBK6u3c9aHuHFPcw== 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: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:02:53 -0000 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 >