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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:35:18 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Alexander Zagrebin" <alexz@visp.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RELEASE: disk IO temporarily hangs up (ZFS or ATA related problem)
Message-ID:  <200912182235.26915.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <5C4BD0F81D1348B287B2ECD55EF283E1@vosz.local>
References:  <39309F560B98453EBB9AEA0F29D9D80E@vosz.local> <200912182027.11632.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <5C4BD0F81D1348B287B2ECD55EF283E1@vosz.local>

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On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Alexander Zagrebin wrote:
> > I doubt this is the problem, I have WD10EADS disks in my ZFS
> > array and I
> > see the same issue.
> >
> > It strikes me as extremely unlikely that both of us would have dud
> > disks..
> >
> > In any case it seems to be a general problem not limited to
> > one area of
> > the disk so a dud sector is an unlikely reason.
>
> Big thanks for confirmation!
> Your confirmation is important for me.
> There should be a way to define where the bug is: in the ata (or
> filesystem) driver or in the drive's firmware....

Yes, it would be nice to track down..

The drive is not particularly fast but single threaded sequential reads=20
and writes (on the array) are not unreasonable (220/300Mb/sec) so it=20
seems odd the penalty for accessing a busy array is so bad (of the=20
order of seconds of delay).

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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