,-- From: Alex Goncharov <alex_goncharov_...@yahoo.com> > Date: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 5:01 PM
> I just noticed your recent > > ---- > r260575 | hselasky | 2014-01-12 > > and am beginning a full rebuild; the results will be known in about > three hours. Hans, While I am doing the rebuild, may I return to the topic I touched slightly in my original PR submission? A sporadic USB HDD device loss, sometimes with a system crash: I had this with a WD drive, when "da0" could disappear at any moment, a file system vnode could not be found for reading or writing and bad things would happen. Now the same story with the Sony USB drive. My observations of many USB HDD's led me to conclude that some are smarter than the others -- the smarter ones may be slower to react to just about anything but they don't get lost. My Seagates may have a huge operation queues for either writing or reading, but I've never lost those drives' devices ("da0"s) when using them. 500G Buffalo never has a long queue, and good for it, but I am fine with a longer queue of the 1T Seagates, as long as their "da0"s don't go down. 1.5T Toshiba is another story: it seems like it often needs a significant wake-up period after sitting idle, but 'da0' never goes away, either. What WD and Sony exhibit on FreeBSD is plain horrible. It doesn't make sense to quickly write the first 10G of 100G of data if the system goes down after those 10G. And losing "da0" on reading or after idling (the WD's behavior) is just as bad. As I mentioned, I didn't observe the Sony issue when using it on Linux (I didn't with WD -- just sent it back.) Can something be done about it along the Linux's lines, which you briefly mentioned and seemed to be critical about? As a data user, I strongly disagree that Linux's approach here is inferior to the one FreeBSD took, if I understand both correctly. Thank you, -- Alex _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"