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

2013-09-22 Thread George Hartzell
Andriy Gapon writes: > on 18/07/2013 20:44 George Hartzell said the following: > > Andriy Gapon writes: > > > on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following: > > > > How should I move forward with this? > > > > > > Could you ple

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

2013-08-07 Thread George Hartzell
Andriy Gapon writes: > on 18/07/2013 20:44 George Hartzell said the following: > > Andriy Gapon writes: > > > on 17/07/2013 23:47 George Hartzell said the following: > > > > How should I move forward with this? > > > > > > Could you ple

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

2013-07-24 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > > George Hartzell writes: > > George Hartzell writes: > > > [...] > > > So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which > > > my home directory resides that contributes to the problem. &

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

2013-07-21 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > George Hartzell writes: > > [...] > > So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which > > my home directory resides that contributes to the problem. > > [...] > > Another data point. > >

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

2013-07-19 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > [...] > So, it would seem that there's something about the filesystem in which > my home directory resides that contributes to the problem. > [...] Another data point. I just ran through my test case, saving the tagged and transcoded files

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

2013-07-19 Thread George Hartzell
Richard Todd writes: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:40:51AM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > In my case I'd want to find a particular set of file size, offset, and > > insertion size that triggers the problem

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

2013-07-18 Thread George Hartzell
Richard Todd writes: > George Hartzell 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 sugges

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

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

2013-07-17 Thread George Hartzell
Hi All, I have what I think is a ZFS related bug. Unfortunately my simplest test case is a bit cumbersome and I haven't definitively proven that the problem is ZFS related. I'm hoping for some feedback on how to move forward. Quick background: I rip my CD's using grip and produce flac files.

Re: ZFS and disappearing glabels

2009-12-31 Thread George Hartzell
Roland Smith writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:48:28PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > > > I've set up a system as described here. > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > > > Using the 8.0 Release DVD and t

Re: ZFS and disappearing glabels

2009-12-31 Thread George Hartzell
Eric writes: > On 12/31/2009 1:48 PM, George Hartzell wrote: > > > > I've set up a system as described here. > > > >http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > > > Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and &g

ZFS and disappearing glabels

2009-12-31 Thread George Hartzell
I've set up a system as described here. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and rebuilding. I set it up with a single drive, the only change that I made was that after creating ad10s1a I glabeled it as disk0, then added /d

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-15 Thread George Hartzell
Freddie Cash writes: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > > > I just wanted to have an extra pair (or a dozen) of eyes look this > > configuration over before I commit to it (tested it in VMWare just in > > case, it works, so I am considering doing this on real hardware soo

Re: ZFS boot on zfs mirror

2009-05-26 Thread George Hartzell
Andriy Gapon writes: > on 26/05/2009 19:21 George Hartzell said the following: > > Dmitry Morozovsky writes: > > > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mickael MAILLOT wrote: > > > > > > MM> Hi, > > > MM> > > > MM> i prefere use z

Re: loader not working with GPT and LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

2009-05-26 Thread George Hartzell
Artis Caune writes: > 2009/5/26 Philipp Wuensche : > > Hi, > > > > I tried booting from a disk with GPT scheme, with a /boot/loader build > > with LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT="yes" in make.conf. I get the following error: > > > > panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x2fd4a6ac from > > /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/

Re: ZFS boot on zfs mirror

2009-05-26 Thread George Hartzell
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mickael MAILLOT wrote: > > MM> Hi, > MM> > MM> i prefere use zfsboot boot sector, an example is better than a long talk: > MM> > MM> $ zpool create tank mirror ad4 ad6 > MM> $ zpool export tank > MM> $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad4 bs=5

success with snd_hda and 7.1-STABLE on Mac Pro, default changed.

2009-01-19 Thread George Hartzell
I upgraded my early-2008 Mac Pro to 7.1-STABLE and Gnome 2.24.3 over the weekend, it had been tracking -STABLE. I'd imported the snd_hda driver and had it running with a few tweaks, which I needed to adjust to get it running under this version of the driver. I'm only able to get the rear line-ou

Re: problem moving gmirror between two machines.

2008-11-17 Thread George Hartzell
CmdLnKid writes: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:29 -, hartzell wrote: > > > George Hartzell writes: > > > > > > I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been > > > running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools

Re: problem moving gmirror between two machines.

2008-11-16 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > > I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been > running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools > available here: > > http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml > > It's been working great

Re: problem moving gmirror between two machines.

2008-11-13 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > [...] > It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going > on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today and rebuilt/installed the > kernel and world whilst running on the DL360, so everything should be > current. >

problem moving gmirror between two machines.

2008-11-13 Thread George Hartzell
I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools available here: http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today an

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
Adam McDougall writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > >[...] > > - I've read in the gjournal man page that when it is "... configured > > on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in > > a consistent state..." I've be

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
Adam McDougall writes: > [...] > I believe gjournal uses 1G for journal (2x512) which seemed to be > sufficient on all of the systems where I have used the default, but I > quickly found that using a smaller journal is a bad idea and leads to > panics that I was unable to avoid with tuning.

good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
I've been running many of my systems for some time now using gmirror on a pair of identical disks, as described by Ralf at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Each disk has single slice that covers almost all of the disk. These slices are combined into the gmirror device (gm0), which is t

acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR on mac pro

2007-06-25 Thread George Hartzell
I have -STABLE (amd64) running on an 8-way Mac Pro system. It's all working great except I get the following message on the console every couple of seconds. acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR 0x10 I've (google...) found one comment about Freebsd and the Mac Pro that includes this message in it's dme

Re: gmirror Issues

2007-03-25 Thread George Hartzell
On Mar 25, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Joe Kelsey wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Joe Kelsey wrote: So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the system by trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I need to do differently? Here are the relevant dmesg lines: atapci0: po

Re: tap device at boot time

2007-03-15 Thread George Hartzell
Willy Offermans writes: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +, Vince wrote: > > Willy Offermans wrote: > > > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > > > > > Is it possible to add and configure a tap device at boot time of > > > FreeBSD? I mean the same as a normal NIC. In my rc.conf: > > > > > >

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread George Hartzell
Bruno Ducrot writes: > [...] > What specific driver(s) were loaded actually? > A devinfo might help. It looks like: p4tcc0 cpufreq0 Here's a devinfo and a dmesg: http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.devinfo http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.dmesg I'm starting to underst

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread George Hartzell
Oliver Fromme writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me > > space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd > > like to be as thrifty as possible. > > > > I

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread George Hartzell
Peter Jeremy writes: > On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > >I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of > >days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). > > What was it doing for those couple of days? [...] It's a

saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread George Hartzell
I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). Then I kld

Re: Dell poweredge 850 hangs on shutdown -p

2006-12-04 Thread George Hartzell
Doug Barton writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > Kirk Davis writes: > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs w

RE: Dell poweredge 850 hangs on shutdown -p

2006-12-04 Thread George Hartzell
Kirk Davis writes: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs when I try to power it down > > using "shutdown -p now". Otherwise it seems to run splendidly. > > > > I reaches the point where it says: "Powering the sy

Dell poweredge 850 hangs on shutdown -p

2006-12-03 Thread George Hartzell
I have a Dell PowerEdge 850 that hangs when I try to power it down using "shutdown -p now". Otherwise it seems to run splendidly. I reaches the point where it says: "Powering the system off using acpi" and then just sits there. Powering it off by just pressing the power button works perfectly.

Re: help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-15 Thread George Hartzell
Miroslav Lachman writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some > > feedback. > > > > The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a > > Tyan S2865G2NR

help identifying gmirror, ata, or motherboard problem (Tyan S2865G2NR)

2006-11-14 Thread George Hartzell
I'm having a problem with a machine that I support and would like some feedback. The system was built up from a barebones Transport PX22, which uses a Tyan S2865G2NR motherboard. It has two drives: ad4: 286188MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 286188MB at ata3-master SATA300 A while back I n

6.2-PRERELEASE mostly works on Sony PCG-Z505JE (APM problem).

2006-10-29 Thread George Hartzell
I installed 6.2-PRERELEASE on my trusty but slow Sony PCG-Z505JE and things generally just worked (including an Atheros based pc-card). Historically I've set the machine up to use APM, and suspend and resume to either memory or a magically prepared disk partition worked well. With 6.2 I can't se

Re: Anyone??? (was Reproducible data corruption on 6.1-Stable)

2006-09-12 Thread George Hartzell
Jonathan Stewart writes: > [...] > I set up a new server recently and transferred all the information from > my old server over. I tried to use unison to synchronize the backup of > pictures I have taken and noticed that a large number of pictures where > marked as changed on the server. Aft

question about rebuiding a gmirror on 6.1

2006-09-12 Thread George Hartzell
A friend of mine decided to take me up on my offer to help him set up and run a freebsd-stable system (he's a photographer who's only ever used shell accounts onto linux systems before). We setup a gmirror using Approach 2 from http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror. It's been up and running for

howto/hack for Matrox's mga_hal and Xorg 6.9.

2006-05-05 Thread George Hartzell
[I've seen some comments here about people struggling w/ mga_hal, so I thought I'd share this.] I wanted to use features of the Matrox mga x11 driver (dual headed digital video) that required the hal, but I wasn't able to get the mga_hal port to work with Xorg 6.9. I cobbled up an underhanded h

Sound problem w/ 6.1-RC and ASUS A8V-MX (VIA VT8233X)

2006-04-14 Thread George Hartzell
I have a new ASUS A8V-MX motherboard that's running 6.1-RC cvsuped earlier this week. I'm running w/ ACPI enabled, I still see the problem if I boot w/ ACPI disabled at the loader prompt. I'm running a kernel based on the standard SMP config file with the addition of an atapicam device. I have:

Re: powerd not behaving with an Asus A8V-MX and Athlon 64 X2 3800+

2006-04-14 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > > I have an Asus A8V-MX motherboard with an AMD Athlong 64 X2 3800+ CPU > and I'm trying to run powerd to keep it cooler/quieter/greener. > [...] [for the archives] I now have powerd running w/out any complaints, although I still don't under

Re: help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-12 Thread George Hartzell
Vladimir Botka writes: > Hello, > for me Plextor-750 works well with cdrecord and SCSI emulation (ATAPI/CAM > module) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#ATAPICAM > > Plextor is a good choice. It works for me with cdrecord too. I'm just trying to

Re: help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-12 Thread George Hartzell
Igor Robul writes: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > > When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says > > "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports > > > > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input

help ith burncd (Input/output error, 6.1-RC, plextor PX-740a)

2006-04-11 Thread George Hartzell
I have a new system which includes a Plextor PX-740a DVD+-R/RW CD-R/RW drive attached to an Asus A8V-MX motherboard. When I try to use burncd to burn a cd, it writes all of the data, says "fixating CD, please wait.." and then reports burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE): Input/output error Oddly enoug

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread George Hartzell
Daniel O'Connor writes: > On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote: > > With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a > > similar controller to hook them up to. > > Actually no.. > If you are using a cheap RAID like Pro

Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

2006-04-02 Thread George Hartzell
Daniel O'Connor writes: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. > > > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) > > > > It's a matter of the BIOS: > > will it complain, or will

Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

2006-03-03 Thread George Hartzell
Patrick M. Hausen writes: > Hello! > > > Is it possible to boot off the install CD, setup a gmirror, and then > > reboot and install on the mirror (and expect things to work ok)? Anyone > > try this? It would be nice if the installer let you do this... > > AFAIK, no. > > Install a min

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-21 Thread George Hartzell
Kevin Oberman writes: > [discussion of USB/Cx level interactions clipped out...] > > If you unload the drivers, you should be to lower levels. Take a look at > sysctl hw.acpi.cpu for detail and to see how much time is spent in each > sleep state. > > I assume that you can unload the driver

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread George Hartzell
Kevin Oberman writes: > [...] > No. There is no conflict between Cx states and EST. Cx states specifies > how deeply the CPU will sleep when idle. EST controls processor speed > and voltage. In most cases, your REALLY want to use both of these. They > are very significant in saving power. (Of

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-12-03 Thread George Hartzell
Jacques Garrigue writes: > From: George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jacques Garrigue writes: > > > From: Jacques Garrigue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup. > > >

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-12-03 Thread George Hartzell
Gleb Smirnoff writes: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:52:58PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > G> > I finally found the cause of my problems: there has been changes in > G> > the em driver (Gb ethernet), such that the machine freezes when trying > G> > to switch au

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-12-03 Thread George Hartzell
Gleb Smirnoff writes: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:52:58PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > G> > I finally found the cause of my problems: there has been changes in > G> > the em driver (Gb ethernet), such that the machine freezes when trying > G> > to switch au

Re: IBM T42 freezes when going to sleep under X11

2005-12-02 Thread George Hartzell
Jacques Garrigue writes: > From: Jacques Garrigue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've got a strange problem with my IBM T42 / Radeon M10 setup. > > > > When using the 6.0-RELEASE kernel (including GENERIC), I cannot go to > > sleep when X11 is running: the machine freezes, display still on. I > > t

Re: unionfs limitations?

2005-05-07 Thread George Hartzell
Marc G. Fournier writes: > On Sat, 7 May 2005, Eirik [ISO-8859-1] Øverby wrote: > > > On 07-05-05 03:19, "George Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[...] > >> Here's one unionfs/jail gotcha that's bitten me a couple of times.

Re: unionfs limitations?

2005-05-06 Thread George Hartzell
Eirik Øverby writes: > Hi, > > I just started playing with mounting ports into jails using unionfs > (mount_unionfs -b /usr/ports_jail /usr/local/jails/jail-0/usr/ports), and > many things seem to work fine. > However, when trying to install either of mysql41-server or mysql41-client, > I s

Re: Current status of nullfs and/or unionfs?

2005-05-05 Thread George Hartzell
Eirik Øverby writes: > [...] > What can I expect to see when trying nullfs and/or unionfs today? Has > anything changed? Do I have even a remote chance of making it work - and if > it doesn't work, what are my chances of anyone having time or energy to look > into it? I'm an admin only, no cod

Re: gmirror oddities

2005-05-03 Thread George Hartzell
Eirik Øverby writes: > Hi! > > I've been using gmirror for a while to safeguard my system disks. I have > taken the slice-based mirror approach, where I use, say, ad0s1 and ad2s1 as > providers. > On one of my servers, this seems to be impossible. I create the mirror using > ad2s1 first (t

periodic scripts for checking gmirror status?

2005-03-17 Thread George Hartzell
I'd like to set up a periodic-style script to check the status of my gmirror RAID. Before I reinvent the wheel, anyone have one that they'd care t share? I'm running Stable, "FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #10: Sun Feb 6 17:25:02 PST 2005" Thanks, g. ___ freeb

Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider [was Re: Problem with migrating...]

2005-02-22 Thread George Hartzell
I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length. I think that you need to mention that you need to add the "-h" flag to both the "gmirror label" command and the final "gmirror insert" command when you add in the second disk. g. __

ACPI Suspend/resume [was Re: ATA mkIII first official patches...]

2005-02-07 Thread George Hartzell
Søren Schmidt writes: > [...] > Find such a machine might be very hard, if not plain impossible :/ > I already have 3 laptops here (of which none has worked for several > month regarding suspend/resume) so I have plenty. [...] How bad is the acpi suspend/resume situation. I have 5.3-BETA4 on

Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider [was Re: Problem with migrating...]

2005-02-06 Thread George Hartzell
Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes: > [...] > It happens because ad0 and ad0s1 share the same last sector. > To fix this you should use '-h' option as you did or you should recreate > ad0s1 slice one sector smaller. Thanks for the help! That makes sense, which is always a nice feeling. Does that mea

Hardcoding gmirror provider [was Re: Problem with migrating...]

2005-02-06 Thread George Hartzell
George Hartzell writes: > [...] > I'd like to migrate the installation to a new box that uses ide disks, > and am basing my attempts on the > > "GEOM mirror Approach 2: Single Slice, Preferred, More Flexible" > > portion of these instructions: >

Problem with migrating onto a gmirror slice.

2005-02-05 Thread George Hartzell
I have a system that I set up to use a gmirror back in the 5.3beta days. It's running fine but I don't remember exactly how I set it up. It's a scsi system w/ two identical disks. I'd like to migrate the installation to a new box that uses ide disks, and am basing my attempts on the "GEOM mi

Is crash dumping supported onto a gmirror swap partition?

2004-11-13 Thread George Hartzell
Is it possible to save crashdumps onto a gmirror device? I'm trying to understand why one of my systems (being upgraded from 5.3BETA4 to 5.3) is sponteously rebooting. The first step seems to be to try to get a crash dump, but: (merlin)[5:16pm]~>>sudo dumpon -v /dev/mirror/gm0s1b Password