Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Richards
idle while the source providers are still reporting 100% active. Is there any tuning I should be investigating for these GEOM classes? --- On Fri, 8/14/09, Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Multiple USB drives stability question To: freebsd

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Richards
debug.sizeof.g_geom: 68 --- On Sat, 8/15/09, Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Multiple USB drives stability question To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 10:50 AM I am now trying to rsync large files from the 320GB gmirror

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Ben Stuyts
Jeff, On 15 aug 2009, at 05:04, Jeff Richards wrote: (da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... I've had lots of stability issues with USB drives until I added some quirks to prevent the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE from happening. For example: Index:

Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Richards
Is there a practical limit on the number of active USB drives with FreeBSD?  I've had stability issues using multiple USB drives as storage. My initial design goal was cheap, hot-swappable storage.  I am only using a 100MB network currently so throughput on the storage is not a problem as I

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Richards
. GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/49273a95d669d784 removed. fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8 GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a509cddbd500a7e removed. --- On Fri, 8/14/09, Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jeff Richards bsd2...@yahoo.com Subject: Multiple USB drives stability question