Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 20:23 -0700 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > I don't mean to sound critical, but why do you guys do this? two answers: 1.) Think of: It could happen, instead of it shouldn't happen :-) 2.) Adding a new JBOD on the fly, without reboot the whole machine, what I've done

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:07:34PM -0700, Rumen Telbizov wrote: > I confirm I experience the same behavior with just a SAS expander not > via SAS switch. I've got no way to get my block device back but > reboot. I don't mean to sound critical, but why do you guys do this? The reason I ask: on ac

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Rumen Telbizov
Hello Denny, everyone, I confirm I experience the same behavior with just a SAS expander not via SAS switch. I've got no way to get my block device back but reboot. Also identify function doesn't work from the OS (no problem via the card BIOS). Don't remember having any luck with sg3_util package

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Helmut Schneider
Michael Proto wrote: > What I ultimately decided to do was use fdisk in interactive mode to > manually align 2 4k-boundary MBR partitions Correct me if I'm wrong but from my point of view there is no need to fall back to MBR partitions. GPT partitions should be at least as robust as MBR partition

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Proto
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: >>  I don't know; it looks correct to me, but I may be missing something >> as I don't currently use gpart. > > gmirror (well, really, any GEOM) doesn't play well with GPT due to the > w

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: >  I don't know; it looks correct to me, but I may be missing something > as I don't currently use gpart. gmirror (well, really, any GEOM) doesn't play well with GPT due to the way they store their metadata. gmirror doesn't touch the start

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:35:22PM +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Michael Proto wrote: ... > > gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0p1 /dev/ad4p1 > > newfs -U -b 32768 -f 4096 -S 4096 /dev/mirror/gm0p1 > > > > gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0p2 /dev/ad4p2 > > newfs -U -b 32768 -f 4096 -S

Re: panic, but /var/crash ist empty

2011-04-27 Thread Helmut Schneider
Helmut 'Ingrid' Schneider wrote: > running 8.2-RELEASE-p1 within VMWare ESXi 4.1-u1 I want to use raw > devices as hard disks. I create the devices using this link: > > http://www.mattiasholm.com/node/33 > > I tried 3 different hard drives (Seagate 2x80GB and 1x400GB SATA2) > which are fine on a

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Proto
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Michael Proto wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Helmut Schneider >> wrote: >> > Michael Proto wrote: >> >> Am I using the correct process to create this array? >> > >> > No. While this works with MBR it fails with GPT as GPT an

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Helmut Schneider
Michael Proto wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Helmut Schneider > wrote: > > Michael Proto wrote: > >> Am I using the correct process to create this array? > > > > No. While this works with MBR it fails with GPT as GPT and GEOM both > > want to use the last sector of the disk. > > > >

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Proto
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Michael Proto wrote: >> Am I using the correct process to create this array? > > No. While this works with MBR it fails with GPT as GPT and GEOM both > want to use the last sector of the disk. > > First create the mirror and after that gpa

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Helmut Schneider
Michael Proto wrote: > I'm migrating away from my old pseudo-RAID partitions to GEOM gmirror > and I have some questions on the right way to accomplish this. I've > got two new 1TB disks that I'm setting up for the new mirror, and > unfortunately they're Western Digital drives with 4k sectors that

correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Proto
I'm migrating away from my old pseudo-RAID partitions to GEOM gmirror and I have some questions on the right way to accomplish this. I've got two new 1TB disks that I'm setting up for the new mirror, and unfortunately they're Western Digital drives with 4k sectors that report themselves as 512b. H

panic, but /var/crash ist empty

2011-04-27 Thread Helmut Schneider
Hi, running 8.2-RELEASE-p1 within VMWare ESXi 4.1-u1 I want to use raw devices as hard disks. I create the devices using this link: http://www.mattiasholm.com/node/33 I tried 3 different hard drives (Seagate 2x80GB and 1x400GB SATA2) which are fine on a physical machine. I also ran Seatool many

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Alexander Motin
On 27.04.2011 16:39, Denny Schierz wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 05:57 -0700 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: camcontrol reset 0 0:22:0 is available, 0:46:0 not: root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:22:0 Reset of 0:22:0 was successful root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:46:0 camcontrol: c

Re: way for failover zpool (no HAST needed)

2011-04-27 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:05:11 +0200 Denny Schierz wrote: DS> hi, DS> Am Dienstag, den 29.03.2011, 23:36 +0300 schrieb Mikolaj Golub: >> >> 2) There are complaints from watchdog. DS> what happens, if the watchdog isn't available and one or both nodes are DS> rebooting or something else?

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 05:57 -0700 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > camcontrol reset 0 0:22:0 is available, 0:46:0 not: root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:22:0 Reset of 0:22:0 was successful root@iscsihead-m:~# camcontrol reset 0:46:0 camcontrol: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device foun

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:20:34PM +0200, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > if I remove the SAS cable from the JBOD (connected through a SAS > switch), all disks disappears, that's fine and expected, but if I > reconnect the cable, the disks are not added anymore. > I've red to use "camcontrol rescan

Re: MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 14:20 +0200 schrieb Denny Schierz: > I've red to use "camcontrol rescan all", but nothing happens. I don't > get my /dev/da0-47 devices anymore and have to reboot the whole machine. small update: I've tested it again and only some disks appear again, but not all.

MPS driver: force bus rescan after remove SAS cable

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, if I remove the SAS cable from the JBOD (connected through a SAS switch), all disks disappears, that's fine and expected, but if I reconnect the cable, the disks are not added anymore. I've red to use "camcontrol rescan all", but nothing happens. I don't get my /dev/da0-47 devices anymore and

Re: way for failover zpool (no HAST needed)

2011-04-27 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 29.03.2011, 23:36 +0300 schrieb Mikolaj Golub: > > 2) There are complaints from watchdog. what happens, if the watchdog isn't available and one or both nodes are rebooting or something else? the other thing what could happen: the connection between the host and the SAS swi

FreeBSD Status Report January-March, 2011

2011-04-27 Thread Daniel Gerzo
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2011 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March 2011. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2011. During this quarter, the work was focused on releasing the new minor versions of FreeBSD,