hardware for home use large storage

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 16 19:05:20 UTC 2010


Dan Langille wrote:
> On Wed, February 10, 2010 10:00 pm, Bruce Simpson wrote:
>> On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote:
>>> I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a
>>> concern.  Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the device, pull, replace with
>>> a new one, glabel, and zfs replace.  It seems to work fine as long as
>>> nothing is accessing the device you are replacing (otherwise you will
>>> get a kernel panic a few minutes down the line).  mav at FreeBSD.org has
>>> also committed a large patch set to 9-CURRENT which implements
>>> "proper" SATA/AHCI hot-plug support and error-recovery through CAM.
>> I've been running with this patch in 8-STABLE for well over a week now
>> on my desktop w/o issues; I am using main disk for dev, and eSATA disk
>> pack for light multimedia use.
> 
> MFC to 8.x?

Merged.

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Alexander Motin


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