From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 06:59:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBB31065672 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3ACE8FC0A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id kuzL1e0020FhH24A6uzjos; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:59:43 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id kuzh1e0063LrwQ28Uuziiv; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:59:42 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8815B9B425; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:59:41 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20100722065941.GA6666@icarus.home.lan> References: <4C47B57F.5020309@langille.org> <4C47E610.2040409@langille.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C47E610.2040409@langille.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Adam Vande More , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:59:43 -0000 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:32:48AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7/21/2010 11:39 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Adam Vande More >> wrote: > > >Also if you have an applicable SATA controller, running the ahci module > >with give you more speed. Only change one thing a time though. > >Virtualbox makes a great testbed for this, you don't need to allocate > >the VM a lot of RAM just make sure it boots and such. > > I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: > > atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem > 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef0000-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on > pci7 > > atapci1: port 0xac00-0xac0f mem > 0xfbbffc00-0xfbbffc7f,0xfbbf0000-0xfbbf7fff irq 19 at device 4.0 on > pci3 > > I added ahci_load="YES" to loader.conf and rebooted. Now I see: > > ahci0: port > 0x8000-0x8007,0x7000-0x7003,0x6000-0x6007,0x5000-0x5003,0x4000-0x400f > mem 0xfb3fe400-0xfb3fe7ff irq 22 at device 17.0 on pci0 > > Which is the onboard SATA from what I can tell, not the controllers > I installed to handle the ZFS array. The onboard SATA runs a > gmirror array which handles /, /tmp, /usr, and /var (i.e. the OS). > ZFS runs only on on my /storage mount point. The Silicon Image controllers have their own driver, siis(4), which uses AHCI as well. It's just as reliable as ahci(4), and undergoes similar/thorough testing. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |