LSI Logic raid status
Marat N.Afanasyev
amarat at ksu.ru
Tue Mar 24 13:04:10 PDT 2009
Peter Ankerstål wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Scott Long wrote:
>
>> Peter Ankerstål wrote:
>>> On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> dev.mpt.0.nonoptimal_volumes: 0
>>>>
>>>> Don't test whether the "nonoptimal_volumes" parameter works, it does -
>>>> but if you pull a drive, FreeBSD likes to panic both on the loss of
>>>> a disk
>>>> and then again when the drive is reconnected and the rebuild completes.
>>>> This is apparently some problem in the CAM layer, not the mpt
>>>> driver, but
>>>> it's something to be aware of. Scott Long has noted that this is being
>>>> worked on in 8.x.
>>> Yes, I tried to remove a drive today. Of course I need to see if it
>>> works properly
>>> before using it "for real". It did, but just as you say it paniced
>>> when I pulled the
>>> drive and when is was resynced. But it sound great if someone is
>>> working on
>>> this problem!
>>
>> The instability during a rebuild should be fixed in 7.2 (and 7-stable as
>> of about the last month). If you can, please update your sources and
>> let me know if it helps.
>>
>> As for actually monitoring and configuring arrays, that work is in
>> progress.
>>
>> Scott
>
> Im running RELENG_7 cvsuped and built like 15 hours ago. I still have
> this problem.
> Please come back to me if you want some additional information about the
> setup.
>
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> Peter Ankerstål
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I'd rather prefer using a gmirror/gstripe instead of mpt semihardware
raid then ;)
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SY, Marat
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