Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:21:41 -0000 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk> To: "'Clayton Milos'" <clay@milos.co.za>, "'Lawrence Farr'" <freebsd-smp@epcdirect.co.uk>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Areca Weirdness - UFS2 larger than 2Tb problem? Message-ID: <01b801c70a3a$8e486ac0$c806a8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <019301c70a38$f7a43a50$9603a8c0@claylaptop>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Clayton Milos > Sent: 17 November 2006 11:10 > To: Lawrence Farr; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Areca Weirdness > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-smp@epcdirect.co.uk> > To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:51 PM > Subject: RE: Areca Weirdness > > > > Re-posting to -STABLE as it also does it on i386. > > > > I reinstalled i386 stable as of yesterday, and newfs'd all > the partitions > > "just in case". I got it to crash while doing a mkdir on the areca > > partition, so set up crash dumps on the boot drive (it > boots off a single > > ATA disk, the Areca is additional storage) and it died again running > > the periodic scripts last night. The info file from the dump shows: > > > > Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b > > Architecture: i386 > > Architecture Version: 2 > > Dump Length: 2145452032B (2046 MB) > > Blocksize: 512 > > Dumptime: Thu Nov 16 03:01:09 2006 > > Hostname: nas-2.shorewood-epc.co.uk > > Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump > > Version String: FreeBSD 6.1-20061115 #0: Wed Nov 15 > 04:18:11 UTC 2006 > > root@monitor.shorewood-epc.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP > > Panic String: ufs_dirbad: bad dir > > Dump Parity: 632980830 > > Bounds: 0 > > Dump Status: good > > > > Am I expecting too much with partitions over 2Tb? I've > never gone over > > 2Tb before, so havent come across any issues like this. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Farr > >> Sent: 10 November 2006 11:39 > >> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > >> Subject: Areca Weirdness > >> > >> I've got an Areca 12 port card running a 6Tb array which is divided > >> into 2.1Tb chunks at the moment, as it was doing the same with a > >> single 6Tb partition. > >> > >> ad0: 58644MB <IC35L060AVER07 0 ER6OA44A> at ata0-master UDMA100 > >> da0 at arcmsr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > >> da0: <Areca Arc1 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > >> da0: 166.666MB/s transfers (83.333MHz, offset 32, 16bit), > >> Tagged Queueing > >> Enabled > >> da0: 2224922MB (4556640256 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 283637C) > >> > >> If I newfs it, and copy data to it, I have no problem initially. > >> If I then try and copy the data on the disk already to a new > >> folder, the machine reboots (it's a remote host with no serial > >> attached currently). When it comes back to life, it mounts, and > >> shows as: > >> > >> /dev/da0 2.1T 343G 1.6T 18% /usr/home/areca1 > >> > >> But is completely empty. Unmounting it and trying to fsck it > >> errors, as does mounting it by hand. > >> > >> [root@nas-2 /home]# fsck -y /dev/da0 > >> ** /dev/da0 > >> Cannot find file system superblock > >> ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device > >> fsck_ufs: /dev/da0: can't read disk label > >> [root@nas-2 /home]# mount /dev/da0 > >> mount: /dev/da0 on /usr/home/areca1: incorrect super block > >> > >> Are there any known issues with the driver on AMD64? I had > >> major issues with it on Linux/386 with large memory support > >> (it would behave equally strangely) that went away when I > >> took large memory support out, maybe there are some non 64 > >> bit safe parts common to both? > > I have the Areca 8 port PCI-X card. 2 arrays of 1.25T each > and no issues > yet. I've been using it on 5.x for a year and now on 6.x it's > perfect too. > Have you updated the card to the latest firmware ? > > I've just done a test copy from the one volume to the other > of 10 gigs. It > ran at over 80M/s and tok under 2 minutes with no errors. > > Did you follow the instructions provided with the Areca card > for creating > volumes over 2TB ? There are some things you have to do so > that the OS works > correctly with it. > > -Clay I'm not convinced it's an Areca problem anymore, as I've copied 300 or so Gb on now, but it will randomly corrupt the fs and reboot itself. Background fsck will not fix it, but a manual one does. I'm going to drop the partitions below 2Tb and try the test again to try and eliminate any hardware/driver issues.
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