Re: zfs on geli vs. geli on zfs (via zvol)

2011-06-30 Thread Todd Wasson
Thanks to both C. P. and Pete for your responses. Comments inline: > Case 1.) is probably harmless, because geli would return a > corrupted sectors' content to zfs... which zfs will likely detect > because it wouldn't checksum correctly. So zfs will correct it > out of redundant storage, and writ

HAST + ZFS: no action on drive failure

2011-06-30 Thread Timothy Smith
First posting here, hopefully I'm doing it right =) I also posted this to the FreeBSD forum, but I know some hast folks monitor this list regularly and not so much there, so... Basically, I'm testing failure scenarios with HAST/ZFS. I got two nodes, scripted up a bunch of checks and failover acti

Re: UFS SU+J

2011-06-30 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 30, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 29/06/2011 23:03, Mark Saad wrote: > >> The svn sources are here http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/suj/8/ . >> >> Why would suj not make it into 8-STABLE ? > > It is a too large patch, and it changes a lot of important, known and > working

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Ronner
On 6/30/11 8:08 PM, Christian Baer wrote: Please keep in mind though that I am not the only person out there with the same error using the same controller (type). I somehow doubt that all those hits by Google are all caused by power difficulties and the common controller is pure coincidence. J

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-06-30 Thread Christian Baer
On 18.06.2011 19:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Hello Jeremy! Thanks for your long answer! I'm sorry to have kept you waiting but I was out of town and turned off all my computers while I was away. > It may be that the kernel is panic'ing and auto-rebooting before he can > see the message in questio

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Ronner
On 6/30/11 7:31 PM, Christian Baer wrote: As far as I can tell so far there isn't any realy kernel panik. But the machine resets alright. All I can find in /var/log/messages is what I have already written. :-( A serial console is easy enough to set up on a Sun for example, but in this case, I am

Re: Crashes with Promise controller

2011-06-30 Thread Christian Baer
On 18.06.2011 18:49, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> I have to slightly explain the word "crash" here: I don't actually >> have to hard reset the system myself. My box just does a reboot by >> itself. No filesystem is unmounted cleanly and because the machine >> isn't really new and powerful fsck takes pr

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB

2011-06-30 Thread Joshua Boyd
2011/6/30 O. Hartmann > It's a pitty. > Indeed, it is. I have 3 1068s for 45 bays, I'm gonna have to buy new cards :(. -- Joshua Boyd E-mail: boy...@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: kern/143370: splash_txt ASCII splash screen module

2011-06-30 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Antony Mawer wrote: > Not sure if this is the right place to post it -- about 6 years ago I > put together a module which displays an ASCII splash screen on boot > (rather than the graphical splash_pcx and splash_bmp modules). As a user, I think this is rather cool; at least it is more useful for

Re: UFS SU+J

2011-06-30 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/06/2011 23:03, Mark Saad wrote: > The svn sources are here http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/suj/8/ . > > Why would suj not make it into 8-STABLE ? It is a too large patch, and it changes a lot of important, known and working code (like softupdates). In other words, it's too risky. ___

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB

2011-06-30 Thread O. Hartmann
On 06/29/11 15:57, Joshua Boyd wrote: 2011/6/29 O. Hartmann mailto:ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based cards do not support drives