Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors RAID1 failure

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 24:04:48, Matthew Lear wrote: Incidentally, is there a way to easily migrate from a atacontrol created array to a gmirror created array? I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 on another machine with a gmirror created RAID1 array with no problem

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p4, IO errors RAID1 failure

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Lear
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 09:36 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 24:04:48, Matthew Lear wrote: Incidentally, is there a way to easily migrate from a atacontrol created array to a gmirror created array? I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 on another

zfsboot: geom_mbr.ko does not populate logical partitions correctly

2010-06-27 Thread Nezmer
Hi, I moved my installation to a ZFS boot partition today (ad6s1a). I had an ext2 logical partition living inside slice 4 (ad6s4). geom_mbr.ko used to take care of that and populate (ad6s[5-9]) and the correct entry under /dev/ext2fs/. Now with zfsboot, weird entries (ad6s4s{1,2,5}) are

Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
First off, many thanks to Rick Macklem for making NFSv4 possible in FreeBSD! I recently updated my NFS server and clients to v4, but have since noticed significant performance penalties. For instance, when I try ls a b c (if a, b, and c are empty directories) on the client, it takes up to 1.87

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Macklem
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Rick C. Petty wrote: First off, many thanks to Rick Macklem for making NFSv4 possible in FreeBSD! I recently updated my NFS server and clients to v4, but have since noticed significant performance penalties. For instance, when I try ls a b c (if a, b, and c are empty

Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3

2010-06-27 Thread GNUbie
Hello all, I just joined this mailing list because I don't know where to look for help. I hope someone can help me on my problem. I first installed FreeBSD 8.0 a few weeks after it was officially released. It was working fine and was able to upgrade it until 8.0-p3. The system was last rebooted

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3

2010-06-27 Thread Andrew J. Caines
GNUbie, Kindly check the screenshot at http://imagebin.org/102605 for the screen output during bootup. I don't know how to recover this system and hopefully someone could help me on how to do it. Can you boot the old kernel[1]? [1] See

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:04:28PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: Weird, I don't see that here. The only thing I can think of is that the experimental client/server will try to do I/O at the size of MAXBSIZE by default, which might be causing a burst of traffic your net interface can't keep up

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:04:28PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: Weird, I don't see that here. The only thing I can think of is that the experimental client/server will try to do I/O at the size of MAXBSIZE by default, which might be causing a burst of traffic your net interface can't keep up

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Macklem
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Rick C. Petty wrote: Hmm. When I mounted the same filesystem with nfs3 from a different client, everything started working at almost normal speed (still a little slower though). Now on that same host I saw a file get corrupted. On the server, I see the following: %

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Macklem
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:04:28PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: Weird, I don't see that here. The only thing I can think of is that the experimental client/server will try to do I/O at the size of MAXBSIZE by default, which might be causing a burst of

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-06-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:47:41PM -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:04:28PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: Weird, I don't see that here. The only thing I can think of is that the experimental client/server will try to do I/O at the size of MAXBSIZE by default, which