Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities

2022-03-31 Thread Glen Barber
Dear community, Given the mental toll the past two years or so have taken on me, I have decided to step down from all of my "hats" within the Project, and take some time to sort out what my future looks like going forward. Happy April 1st. I'm not going anywhere. :-) Glen signature.asc Desc

Re: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities

2022-03-31 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:18:16PM -0600, The Doctor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 12:15:02AM +, Glen Barber wrote: > > Dear community, > > > > Given the mental toll the past two years or so have taken on me, I have > > decided to step down from all of my "hats" within the Project, and take

FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Now Available

2022-03-31 Thread Glen Barber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The first RC build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 13.1-RC1 amd64 GENERIC o 13.1-RC1 i386 GENERIC o 13.1-RC1 powerpc GENERIC o 13.1-RC1 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 13.1-RC1 powerpc64le GENERIC6

CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread George Michaelson
I upgraded 12.2 to 13.0-p8 and hit a delay with SCSI drive initialisation, it loops for a timeout over the "Waiting for CAM" message, then proceeds. This interferes with the ZFS initialisation and the non-root zpool are not imported. I intruded a /usr/local/etc/rc.d script PROCEED: var REQUIRE:

12.1 bootblocks the last known good choice for older Dell h.w

2022-03-31 Thread George Michaelson
a Dell (not the one with the cam problem I posted about as well today) refuses to get. beyond BIOS device detection on any bootblocks after 12.1. I've tried every .iso 12.2 through to FreeBSD-Current snapshots, and they all display the same problem hanging on the bootable drive detect phase. I don

Re: CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:14 PM George Michaelson wrote: > I upgraded 12.2 to 13.0-p8 and hit a delay with SCSI drive > initialisation, it loops for a timeout over the "Waiting for CAM" > message, then proceeds. > OK. > This interferes with the ZFS initialisation and the non-root zpool are > n

Re: CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread George Michaelson
Thanks for the cluestick. I don't disagree with anything you said btw. Here's the dmesg. (attachment, can in-line if thats better) ---<>--- Copyright (c) 1992-2021 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University o

Re: CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread George Michaelson
I checked /boot/zfs/zpool.cache and /etc/zfs/zpool.cache both have the tank in question, zdb agrees, they are identical, multiple reboots re-tested: without a manual zpool import tank, only the zfs zroot which is magically mounted appears. The other tank does not unless you call it into being. Doin

Re: 12.1 bootblocks the last known good choice for older Dell h.w

2022-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:20 PM George Michaelson wrote: > a Dell (not the one with the cam problem I posted about as well today) > refuses to get. beyond BIOS device detection on any bootblocks after > 12.1. > > I've tried every .iso 12.2 through to FreeBSD-Current snapshots, and > they all disp

Re: CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:40 PM George Michaelson wrote: > I checked /boot/zfs/zpool.cache and /etc/zfs/zpool.cache both have the > tank in question, zdb agrees, they are identical, multiple reboots > re-tested: without a manual zpool import tank, only the zfs zroot > which is magically mounted a

Re: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities

2022-03-31 Thread Yasuhiro Kimura
Hi Glen, From: Glen Barber Subject: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 00:15:02 + > Dear community, > > Given the mental toll the past two years or so have taken on me, I have > decided to step down from all of my "hats" within the Projec

Re: CAM timeouts on boot (13.0-p8, Dell R730xd, mrsas controller)

2022-03-31 Thread George Michaelson
here's the layout from zpool.cache gronggrong # zdb -C -U /boot/zfs/zpool.cache tank: version: 5000 name: 'tank' state: 0 txg: 5094520 pool_guid: 14778862554646682675 errata: 0 hostid: 2826039973 hostname: 'gronggrong.rand.apnic.net' com.delphix:has_per_vdev_zap

Re: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities

2022-03-31 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: > Hi Glen, > > From: Glen Barber > Subject: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 00:15:02 + > > > Dear community, > > > > Given the mental toll the past two years or so have

Re: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities

2022-03-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 1 April 2022 at 5:58:39 +, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: >> Hi Glen, >> >> From: Glen Barber >> Subject: Considering stepping down from all of my FreeBSD responsibilities >> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 00:15:02 + >> >>> De