On 11/21/2010 2:16 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com > <mailto:tun...@tundraware.com>> wrote: > > > This drive is being used as a backup drive for all the workstations on > this particular network, and "reliable" is much more important than " > slightly faster". > > > As someone already said, SU is probably not the culprit here. I've used > Samba + SU for a long time with no such problems although I have no > current setups to verify. > > SU substantially increases disk IO, it's not 'slightly faster' it's much > faster. The error you see is probably the result of flaky drive or > controller as the additional IO provided by SU allows the flakiness to > show through. Although from what you describe my choice for the drive > would be gjournal + UFS. If you've got a lot of asynchronous IO that's a > better solution. >
It looks like this may have been a loose cable. After reseating the cable and reinitializing the drive, it seems to be fine. I turned on softupdates and all seems well ... Thanks for responding... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"