Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
Hi there, I'm scratching my head. I've just migrated to a super micro chassis and at the same time gone from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1-RELEASE. The machine in question is running a ZFS mirror configuration on two ada devices (with a 8gb gmirror carved out for swap). Since doing so I've been having

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Steven Hartland
What chassis is this? - Original Message - From: Dr Josef Karthauser j...@karthauser.co.uk To: freebsd...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:29 AM Subject: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue? Hi there, I'm

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Steven Hartland
Is the SSD running at 6Gbps? If so have you tried limiting the speed to 3Gbps? Regards Steve - Original Message - From: John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.org To: sta...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:45 AM Subject: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE Hello all, I have

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shutdown problem with an USB memory stick as ZFS cache device

2013-07-18 Thread Maurizio Vairani
On 17/07/2013 17:29, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Maurizio Vairani wrote: On 17/07/2013 11:50, Ronald Klop wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:27:09 +0200, Maurizio Vairani maurizio.vair...@cloverinformatica.it wrote: Hi all, on a Compaq Presario laptop I have just installed the latest stable

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 18 Jul 2013, at 08:29, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: Hi there, I'm scratching my head. I've just migrated to a super micro chassis and at the same time gone from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1-RELEASE. The machine in question is running a ZFS mirror configuration on two ada devices (with a

Seeing data corruption with g_multipath utility

2013-07-18 Thread Sowmya L
Hi Steven, Read/Write errors are recorded when an active path of the geom_multipath device is pulled while running the i/o on dataset created for the pool. Running I/o on dataset using dd. *Freebsd version :* 9.0 *Patch imported from stable 9 : *r229303, r234916 *zpool status:* **

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 10:25, Bob Bishop wrote: Me too (over a long period, with various hardware). There is a general problem with energy-saving drives that controllers don't understand them. Typically the drive decides to go into some power-saving mode, the controller wants to do some operation, the

Re: Help with filing a [maybe] ZFS/mmap bug.

2013-07-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following: How should I move forward with this? Could you please try to reproduce this problem using a kernel built with INVARIANTS options? -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread John Reynolds
On 7/18/2013 12:36 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: Is the SSD running at 6Gbps? If so have you tried limiting the speed to 3Gbps? I would imagine so. It has a 6Gbps interface and the Z87 board does also--so I can only imagine it's trying to go as fast as possible by default. I will fiddle with the

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: On 7/17/2013 5:48 PM, Glen Barber wrote: Hi John, Do you have a SATA drive you can try with this hardware? It would be useful to know if that works, or same errors, etc. Glen I do, and that was my plan for tomorrow. A

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Steven Hartland
You can use: hint.ahcich.X.sata_rev to limit the speed See man for ahci(4) for more details. - Original Message - From: John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.org To: Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk Cc: sta...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:48 PM Subject: Re:

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread John Reynolds
John, in addition to suggestions/replies from others, can you also try the 10.0-CURRENT snapshot? In particular, if your problem continues with a SATA drive, I am curious if the problem still exists in head/. http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/ Thanks. Yes, I can try

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:48:28AM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: On 7/18/2013 12:36 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: Is the SSD running at 6Gbps? If so have you tried limiting the speed to 3Gbps? I would imagine so. It has a 6Gbps interface and the Z87 board does also--so I can only imagine it's

Re: Help with filing a [maybe] ZFS/mmap bug.

2013-07-18 Thread George Hartzell
Andriy Gapon writes: on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following: How should I move forward with this? Could you please try to reproduce this problem using a kernel built with INVARIANTS options? I added INVARIANT_SUPPORT and INVARIANTS options to the GENERIC kernel,

Re: Help with filing a [maybe] ZFS/mmap bug.

2013-07-18 Thread George Hartzell
Richard Todd writes: George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.com writes: Hi All, I have what I think is a ZFS related bug. [...] [summary: Picard seems to trigger an mmap consistency bug in ZFS]. [...] Anyway, what I'd suggest is the following: see if my patch for py-mutagen

Re: Help with filing a [maybe] ZFS/mmap bug.

2013-07-18 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
I know how all not loving me-too emails, but I'll try :) There's a rtorrent, which uses mmap. And I had cases (related to reboot), where big files (or average files in many-files torrents) appears with broken checksum without any good reason. Author of rtorrent not very politely always assume that

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Perhaps they are WD Green drives? They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives (model WD1000FYPS) , not sure if that's green or not. In that case, other than quoting Bob's suggestion about avoiding them, there's something you can do: a)

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
On 18 Jul 2013, at 08:33, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: What chassis is this? Hey Steven, It's a Supermicro CSE-813MTQ-350CB. Cheers, Joe ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Help with filing a [maybe] ZFS/mmap bug.

2013-07-18 Thread Richard Todd
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:40:51AM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Removing the mmap support from those two routines seems to avoid the issue. Aha. If so, then the issue is triggered by one or both of those two routines; hack them to print out the exact offsets used on each call and use

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser j...@karthauser.co.uk wrote: On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Perhaps they are WD Green drives? They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives (model WD1000FYPS) , not sure if that's green or not. Yes, those are

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
On 18 Jul 2013, at 20:31, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser j...@karthauser.co.uk wrote: On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Perhaps they are WD Green drives? They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
On 18 Jul 2013, at 20:31, Charles Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Dr Josef Karthauser j...@karthauser.co.uk wrote: On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:07, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Perhaps they are WD Green drives? They're WD RE2-GP 1 TB drives (model

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Dr Josef Karthauser j...@karthauser.co.uk On 18 Jul 2013, at 08:33, Steven Hartland kill...@multiplay.co.uk wrote: What chassis is this? Hey Steven, It's a Supermicro CSE-813MTQ-350CB. We've seen issues on supermicro chassis before which cause timeouts

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 21:13, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: b) try different controllers and/or different OS releases. I'm committed to FreeBSD, as the machine is already rolled out and in a data centre ;). I said different OS releases, not different OS! I wouln't say such a blasphemy :) bye

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 21:31, Charles Swiger wrote: Updating the firmware and increasing the timeout before these spin down automagically is likely to help, but as Andrea noted, such drives do have quite a history of timeout problems due to excessive head parking and their power conservation

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread John Reynolds
On 7/18/2013 8:49 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: today. I will most definitely report back any findings. Thanks for your reply! John, in addition to suggestions/replies from others, can you also try the 10.0-CURRENT snapshot? In

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:28:10PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: On 7/18/2013 8:49 AM, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: today. I will most definitely report back any findings. Thanks for your reply! John, in addition to suggestions/replies from

Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:28 PM, John Reynolds john...@reynoldsnet.orgwrote: One person said to fiddle in the BIOS with the USB settings. I went into the BIOS and disabled Intel USB 3.0 Mode support (this is a very new motherboard with USB 3.0). That fixed the issue! For those curious about

9.2PRERELEASE ZFS panic in lzjb_compress

2013-07-18 Thread olivier
Hi, Running 9.2-PRERELEASE #19 r253313 I got the following panic Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 22; apic id = 46 fault virtual address = 0xff827ebca30c fault code = supervisor read data, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0x81983055

Re: FreeBSD-9.1: machine reboots during snapshot creation, LORs found

2013-07-18 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 04-Jul-2013 at 19:25:28 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 04:29:19PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: OK, patch is applied. I will reboot the machine later and see what happens tomorrow in the morning. However, it might take a few days since the last 2 weeks all