From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 15:49:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0362106564A for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:49:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjg@soe.ucsc.edu) Received: from mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.48.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9A98FC08 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.48.32]) by mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA6D774C00C; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:49:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gustafson To: Matt Thyer Message-ID: <304032420.122582.1315583367175.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [169.233.230.26] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.9_GA_2686 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Win)/6.0.9_GA_2686) Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:49:27 -0000 > If not, look at paying a small (say $1k) bounty to get it fixed. :) Unfortunately, our budget situation would not allow this sort of thing right now. :\ Buying hardware is a lot easier than paying for something like this. > Helping to fix the driver is a thing that Tim is in the unusual > situation to be able to do as he has access to the affected hardware. > However, if paid work demands a quicker solution, I'm hoping they'll fund > use of the SAS 3G card (cheap) whilst allowing Tim to occasionally work > with the SAS 6G card to work on a final solution! I can most likely switch to a different card. Just to make sure I get the right one, do you have a part number of the card that you are recommending? As I mentioned earlier, I was looking around on the LSI site and they have lots of options, but none with a port configuration that I need (2 external ports only). I'd be happy to help with debugging the 6G problem. I could probably install that card into another box and give some developers access to it, but I'd have to rustle up some disks and port expanders to make it a fair test. > Ideally we don't want Tim to have to move away from FreeBSD. We want him > to help fix the driver. I've been a FreeBSD man since 2.2.5, and I won't be switching off any time soon. :) We have several other FreeBSD servers at this point - 5 to be exact, plus my workstation, and there's talk of adopting it more because of Soracle's abandonment of various projects. We're primarily using them for bulk storage - most of them are ZFS with multi-terabyte ZFS file systems - but I've got one that's a workhorse for web and other such things. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Gustafson tjg@soe.ucsc.edu Baskin School of Engineering 831-459-5354 UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering 317B -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-