On 09/24/08 10:57 PM, Jeff Bonwick wrote:
It's almost certainly the SIL3114 controller.
Google "SIL3114 data corruption" -- it's nasty.

I've also in the past had the misfortune of experiencing
Silicon Image.  My corruption was with other file types
and not even ZFS.   Silicon Image is something I do not
wish on my enemies.  No attempt to acknowledge or recall
defective silicon.  No interest in customer data loss.
Well, this customer has no further interest in Silicon
Image.  I refuse to acknowledge that they exist.

Jeff

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:50:01AM +0200, Mikael Karlsson wrote:
I have a strange problem involving changes in large file on a mirrored zpool in
Open solaris snv96.
We use it at storage in a VMware ESXi lab environment. All virtual disk files gets corrupted when changes are made within the files (when running the machine that is).

The "sad" thing is that I've created about ~200Gb of random data in large files and even modified those files without any problem (using dd with skip and conv=notrunc options). I've copied the files within the pool and over the network on all network interfaces
on the machine - without problems.

It's just those .vmdk files that gets corrupted.

The hardware is an Opteron desktop machine with a SIL3114 sata interface. Personally I have exactly the same interface at home with the same setup without problem. Only the other hardware differs (disks and so on).

The disks are WD7500AACS, which is those with variable rotation speed 5400-7200. Could it be the disks? Could it be the disk controller or the rest of the hardware?? I should mention that the
controller has been flashed with a non-raid bios.

I could provide more information if needed! Is there anyone that have any ideas or suggestions?


Some output:

bash-3.00# zpool status -vx
  pool: testing
 state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
        corruption.  Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
        entire pool from backup.
   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
 scrub: scrub completed with 1 errors on Wed Sep 24 16:59:13 2008
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        testing     ONLINE       0     0    16
          mirror    ONLINE       0     0    16
            c0d1    ONLINE       0     0    51
            c1d1    ONLINE       0     0    54

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

        /testing/ZFS-problem/ZFS-problem-flat.vmdk


Regards

Mikael
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to