On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Mark wrote: > Just checking to see if people are having success with storage daemon running > on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS and compression enabled? I ask because I'm having > issues with the backups completing without any errors reported, but then an > immediate restore attempt fails due to block checksum mismatches, or trying > something like 'bls -j -v -V Full-0079 FileStorage1' will fail and exit with > a block checksum mismatch. > > The pool is a raidz1 made up of 5 1.5TB drives. I can run a scrub, get a > clean result, run a backup, then have a restore from that backup fail (only > for larger backups, small ones seem fine). A scrub run after that will also > report errors, usually 1 or 2 out of roughly 600GB of data, and it will show > them as repaired. I'm just trying to determine if I'm being bitten by the > SATA controller, it's an ' <ATI IXP700 AHCI SATA controller>' and I have to > set the storage type to IDE instead of AHCI and set 'hint.ahci.0.msi=0' in > loader.conf or the system can't even see the drives. Or maybe what I'm > trying here is a bad idea? I'd just like the compression without the > overhead and slowdown on the clients that comes from enabling compression in > the fileset. I'm a FreeBSD neophyte, is the SATA/AHCI stuff just not good > yet or would much better results be likely with a newer board/controller?
I'm running FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS and compression enabled. No problems. If you haven't already, start talking on the FreeBSD lists. I also recommend trying a backup to a non-compressed area of your system. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
