From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 13:05:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC10106566B for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:05:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cforgeron@acsi.ca) Received: from mta03.eastlink.ca (mta03.eastlink.ca [24.224.136.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F211B8FC15 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:04:59 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from ip05.eastlink.ca ([unknown] [24.222.39.68]) by mta03.eastlink.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.3-11.01 64bit (built Sep 1 2009)) with ESMTP id <0LI300EQAOCAWX34@mta03.eastlink.ca>; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:58 -0300 (ADT) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=8reSTVRqS4Rq5Xx4Jai9N41eZpHz3D5gSX5rA0od4mg= c=1 sm=1 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=jAMlq-imAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kzlirbLKg49L1WvDEZcA:9 a=L5Jhr7aGExt5yAe39wFeUE7kpP4A:4 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=pyy963zsynMA:10 a=fgf5PR_cwQYA:10 a=xraHq2XsALYA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=/bLbuBD0lrv91xL1PDQKaA==:117 Received: from blk-222-10-85.eastlink.ca (HELO server7.acsi.ca) ([24.222.10.85]) by ip05.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:58 -0300 Received: from server7.acsi.ca ([192.168.9.7]) by server7.acsi.ca ([192.168.9.7]) with mapi; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:58 -0300 From: Chris Forgeron To: Alexander Leidinger Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:57 -0300 Thread-topic: Constant minor ZFS corruption Thread-index: Acvf+gGLdpbeVSjRTJy3LRVGIfgXiADF18Cg Message-id: References: <201103081425.p28EPQtM002115@dungeon.home> <201103091241.p29CfUM1003302@dungeon.home> <20110311150027.153506yognqhzx18@webmail.leidinger.net> In-reply-to: <20110311150027.153506yognqhzx18@webmail.leidinger.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" , Stephen McKay Subject: RE: Constant minor ZFS corruption X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:05:00 -0000 How big are your pools? I've never had one under 6 TB, which could be my problems.. or that it's been years since I've tried i386 for anything other than a firewall. -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Leidinger [mailto:Alexander@Leidinger.net] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:00 AM To: Chris Forgeron Cc: Stephen McKay; Mark Felder; freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Constant minor ZFS corruption Quoting Chris Forgeron (from Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:43:43 -0400): > Oh - and you're AMD64, correct, not i386? I think we (royal we) should > remove support for i385 in ZFS, it has never been stable for me, and I > see a lot of grief about it on the boards. I also think you need 8 GB > of RAM to play seriously. I've had reasonable success with 4GB and a > light load, but any serious file traffic needs 8GB of breathing room > as ZFS gobbles up the RAM in a very aggressive manner. Veto! I have two x86 machines, one with "only" 768 MB RAM. Both of them run with ZFS without problems. The scenario I use them in may not be the scenario you need to provide a machine for, but there are scenarios where ZFS on x86 works. Bye, Alexander. -- BOFH excuse #113: Root nameservers are out of sync http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137