From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 20:28:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C3F4835 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C898564F63 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id bs8so22266265wib.1 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:28:08 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zina7d3wOEN/cYJxDW+WY4PDkkouP49Cp01lVDMFbRU=; b=UxqIeZdnhXLd1jbBxw5WnIK2bB3fVrQxUbk0lR47G99GVSCJoVl2sfa1bTBMMzDiPO p5P9DGI1xz0eIQX0qXqKWGRtSAkSdVlewUis6d2mQC8V6Rkxw6ToUVRu1TI7+u1nS3Tn IAFUrl4yMo2SjH8/Wt1Jj39amsn8JjtkF9qzTrcdZE1gQrRlfiRr1UMhMccq6xqpSaT2 aodLp/jGA3JA2L6mXGINMCbk5ttyJ+XDgpj/o2u8VgLAvbI7aiuI9/9f57pTmrHVlaTI /HoEXRe+ngqYpqxvWXoRcpvAsqGf9ZOFnyc+dnfQH28LNkNIhQK5LCFf4lMju4Zp/Ig9 ooow== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmvVCi4BvzBv9R4lT8sxqBway9e7flD4CqhftqCobN/di8/8PXPoTL555Pqjfi+IqhfXU15 X-Received: by 10.194.5.227 with SMTP id v3mr105315295wjv.63.1419798488525; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p14sm36869671wie.1.2014.12.28.12.28.07 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:28:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A067D0.4050606@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:00 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dr Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? References: <54a048f2.45c1c20a.6ffd.ffffe6d7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:28:16 -0000 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 >> wrote: >>> On 28 Dec 2014 at 4:53:59 pm GMT, Steven Hartland >>> wrote: >>>> On 28/12/2014 07:36, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block 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