* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll investigate this option. Does anyone know the stability > reliability of the mpt(4) driver on CURRENT? Is it out of GIANT lock > yet? It was hard to tell from the TODO list if it is entirely free of > GIANT or not.
Yes, mpt(4) was made MPSAFE in revision 1.41, about 3 months ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/mpt/mpt.c#rev1.41 I've not seen any stability issues with mpt in either of our test systems, running heavy MySQL load over >20 spindles and a couple of controllers each. > My only fear of this is that once this system is in production, that's > pretty much it. Maintenance windows are about 1 year apart, usually > longer. Best temper your fear with some thorough testing then. If you are going to use ZFS in such a situation, though, I might be strongly tempted to use Solaris instead. Why the long gaps between maintenance? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
