Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:00 +0000 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@karthauser.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? Message-ID: <54A067D0.4050606@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk> References: <54a048f2.45c1c20a.6ffd.ffffe6d7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk>
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On 28/12/2014 20:07, Steven Hartland wrote: > > On 28/12/2014 18:15, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >> On 28 Dec 2014 at 5:30:23 pm GMT, Dr Josef Karthauser >> <joe@karthauser.co.uk> wrote: >>> On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland >>> <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote: >>>> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping >>>>>>> the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m >>>>>>> starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! >>>>>>> :). >>>>>> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on >>>>>> writes. >>>>>> >>>>> Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions >>>>> weren’t aligned! >>>>> >>>>> As to whether they ought to be aligned by default, this box is on >>>>> a slightly older version: >>>>> >>>>> 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 >>>>> 06:37:44 UTC 2014 >>>>> >>>>> so perhaps that’s been fixed since. >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks folk for your help! >>>>> >>>> Would you mind testing to see if this is indeed fixed in 10.1 or >>>> current? >>>> >>>> Would be good to ensure this is actually fixed? >>>> >>> Grr. I've just updated to 10.1 and now my ata controllers are >>> erroring like crazy! Luckily booting kernel.old works. >>> >>> We're there issues with 10.1? >>> >> For reference this previously reported problem is what I am also seeing: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/081136.html >> >> >> Things were stable and fine under 10.0 but quite quickly borked under >> 10.1 > Is your hardware identical to that in that news post? > I have an idea of something that might help if the above is true can you please link to the contents of a verbose boot and pciconf -v -l. Regards Steve
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