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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:29:31 -0700
From:      Jim Harris <jim.harris@gmail.com>
To:        Maikel Verheijen <Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: nvd disk on nvme controller not detected at boot-time
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Maikel Verheijen <
Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com> wrote:

>  Hi Jim,
>

<snip>

>    I'm currently running FreeBSD 10.0 with updates from freebsd-update.
> Would FreeBSD 10.1-RC be safe for a production environment or would it be
> better to wait until the real release? The machine is not used for
> production yet, but we do want to go live with it in the near future. I
> currently use a =E2=80=9Cworkaround=E2=80=9D, I=E2=80=99m not loading ZFS=
 at boot time but use a
> custom RC script to load the nvd module, test if the nvd0 disk is there,
> then load the ZFS module. That seems to work for now, but having it work
> =E2=80=9Cout of the box=E2=80=9D would be better, and a lot less prone to=
 manual mistakes
> made by me :)
>
> I cannot recommend whether 10.1-RC would be safe for a production
environment, but you could certainly use 10.1-RC to at least confirm it
fixes the issues described.

You could also apply these two patches to your 10.0 kernel tree and rebuild
just nvme.ko.

Best regards,

-Jim



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