From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 17:38:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD3F1065670 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:38:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utf128@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265488FC12 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so8304355fxm.13 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:38:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eXQscDAn5nke3s+24GRQJ29QVWOsay7KoKxW2lVW3Yw=; b=Y+1ZS4YMu9qyHpDs1Wafv0Hu5jmPDPWOTliaA5dC3xxtJ6sBKGQRQolqS+BWa7YXOA ht7uYWz8+MQsfNOF8Had5zGZ9ujqC3hOSr0sQeTvXxX7rkwFWEra4rZwS2TvurzDLiHY Kpur0cnh0C0Yk9Lf6p4DSMq5y9HYij1bpNaQ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rfPf8QEAVukklcm1jB1agtySwEXLek14Gu94uveUMfSbR39nqrsMqUdtjGgzH7TXTO ilvHm7Un+CTM7K/mVyvHLOzOGZCm8eWH250nAq3HpqsBZqWszX1NyUux9Z2IEab6Q0Yk L5EIWRSfFgE7n6NUFPZJ6UDlPbr3m0rfQP+Q4= Received: by 10.223.71.198 with SMTP id i6mr3561055faj.140.1291482522347; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:08:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.4.14] (dslb-084-063-095-184.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.63.95.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f24sm993175fak.24.2010.12.04.09.08.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:08:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CFA7576.6010002@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:08:06 +0100 From: Michael Schaefer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100708 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: massive hdd/geli problems after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:38:59 -0000 Hey folks, some days ago i upgraded my FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 system to 8.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. I'm using a generic kernel so the upgrade process was just straight forward. However I encountered massive problems with my hdd which I now found out are attributed to this upgrade. I'm using a WD15EARS Caviar Green 1.5TB for data which is formated with ufs inside a geli container. The system itself runs on a 1GB CF card. Both is attached to a VIA EPIA Mini ITX platform. After the upgrade every read or write operation on the WD drive results in very slow performance (100k/s up to 2mb/s with significant lags) and dmesg is flooded with messages like the following: ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51 error=84 LBA=594632984 bt kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=304452055040, length=4096)] bt kernel: g_vfs_done():ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=304452055040, length=4096)]error = 5 bt kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_MUL48 status=51 error=84 LBA=2452694208 bt kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=1255779401728, length=131072)] bt kernel: g_vfs_done():ad4p1.eli[READ(offset=1255779401728, length=131072)]error = 5 bt kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_MUL48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2452698560 A filesystem check on the attached geli container reports thousands of errors and unreadable sectors. In the end every read or write operation (such as copying a larger file over the network) results in freezing the system after several minutes. So does the fsck which I didn't manage to perform completely. files transferred are mostly broken. As the messages look like a dying hdd I replaced the cable, checked connection, etc. Nothing changes. Have been fiddling around for one day now and was close to file an RMA request. But just to make sure I did a rollback using freebsd-udpate back to 8.0-RELEASE-p4. Behold now everything goes smooth again and no errors occur at all. performance stability - everything back to normal. Any ideas on this? Since 8.0 is approaching end-of-life I would really like to upgrade to 8.1.. thx a lot Michael