Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Daniel Kalchev wrote: DK> > > > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device DK> > > > da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) DK> > DK> > Thanks -- is it also possible to have something like DK> > DK> > da0: 2861588MB (732566646 4096 byte sectors: 255H 6

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> > KDM> > Ah that makes sense. I'm a bit reluctant to use -current on this particular KDM> > KDM> > machine, so I would discuss MFCing mps driver wirh ken@ KDM> > KDM> KDM> > KDM> I have attached a patch against -stable, try it out and let me kno

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 02/17/11 04:28, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0500, Michael Proto wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM, wrote: Under 8.2-PRERELEASE (GENERIC kernel), about 15% of the times I boot up (with rpc.statd and rpc.lockd enabled in rc.conf), I get: Feb 4 07:31:11 won

Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > According to Hitachi, this is an 512b drive. > > Correct. This isn't a 4k drive. Datasheet: > > http://www.hgst.com/internal-drives/enterprise/ultrastar/ultrastar-7k3000 Hmm, wasn't the issues with 3T drives, that they internally use 4K blocks and emulate 512 and that therefore 8 bloc

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 2/17/2011 9:59 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Baldwin" Waiting for the default route to be pingable actually fixed a few other problems for us on 7 though as well (often ntpdate would not work on boot and now it works reliably, etc.) so we went with that

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:18:28 am Steven Hartland wrote: This has become a issue for us in 8.x as well. I'm pretty sure in pre 8.x these nfs mounts would simply background but recently machines are now failing to boot. It seems that failure to l

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Rumen Telbizov
Hello Damien, list: I've been following this discussion with great interest and I hope the result of it will be the merge of a stable driver in STABLE branch soon. I brought this not a long ago ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/061237.html) and I was hoping to have

Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Ken Chen > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:12:13 +0800 > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > I have tried. It can not be interrupted by CTRL-C. > > 2011/2/17 Doug Barton > > > Ok, likely you can bypass the problem by hitting Ctrl-C. > > > > Once you get kernel and userland updated m

Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 17), Daniel Kalchev said: > >>> da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > >>> da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) > > > > Thanks -- is it also possible to have something like > > > > da0: 2861588MB (732566646 4096 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "John Baldwin" Waiting for the default route to be pingable actually fixed a few other problems for us on 7 though as well (often ntpdate would not work on boot and now it works reliably, etc.) so we went with that route. Also fixed quite a few issues for us

Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

2011-02-17 Thread Ken Chen
I have tried. It can not be interrupted by CTRL-C. 2011/2/17 Doug Barton > Ok, likely you can bypass the problem by hitting Ctrl-C. > > Once you get kernel and userland updated make sure that you get /etc/ > updated as well and you should be fine. > > > hth, > > Doug > > > > On 02/16/2011 23:24,

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:18:28 am Steven Hartland wrote: > This has become a issue for us in 8.x as well. > > I'm pretty sure in pre 8.x these nfs mounts would simply background but > recently machines are now failing to boot. It seems that failure to > lookup nfs mount point hosts now cau

Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

2011-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 1/28/11 11:29 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 1/27/11 10:44 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> The 8.X kernel is NOT single-threaded. Anything but. And the stack has >> also been improved, I believe there are still bottlenecks but its far better >> than the old days. >> >> The igb driver in 8.2 creates

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/17/11 3:21 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Damien Fleuriot: >> I destroyed the logical volume and built mps copied from -current (I opened >> a thread on stable@ a few weeks ago about this) but my "patch" was *nowhere* >> as big as this. > > Here Ken's patch: [snip] > There ma

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Damien Fleuriot: > I destroyed the logical volume and built mps copied from -current (I opened a > thread on stable@ a few weeks ago about this) but my "patch" was *nowhere* as > big as this. Here Ken's patch: amd64/conf/GENERIC |1 conf/files |

Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Edho P Arief
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > I have one of the new 3TB drives: > > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) > > Now as far as I understand, one can operate it with many 512byte blocks > or one can tr

Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Daniel Kalchev
da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) Thanks -- is it also possible to have something like da0: 2861588MB (732566646 4096 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) According to Hitachi, this is an 512b drive. Daniel __

Re: 3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Edho P Arief wrote: > > I have one of the new 3TB drives: > > > > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > > da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) > > > > Now as far as I understand, one can operate it with many 512byte blocks > > or one can try to use the internal

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/17/11 1:18 PM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now, >> we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project >> still struggles with them (for reasons I don't kn

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread Steven Hartland
This has become a issue for us in 8.x as well. I'm pretty sure in pre 8.x these nfs mounts would simply background but recently machines are now failing to boot. It seems that failure to lookup nfs mount point hosts now causes this fatal error :( We've just tried Jeremy's netwait script and it w

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now, > we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project > still struggles with them (for reasons I don't know, might be LSI's > fault, might be a lac

Re: LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

2011-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/17/11 12:10 PM, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> It looks rather unhappy: >> >> mybsd root /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools >> # >> /usr/local/sbin/smartc

3TB disc and block alignment

2011-02-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! I have one of the new 3TB drives: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C) Now as far as I understand, one can operate it with many 512byte blocks or one can try to use the internal 4kbyte blocks. How would one do that with Fre