From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 11:06:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3796510656BB for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2E38FC2C for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4HB6wik015742 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:59 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o4HB6w1m015740 for freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:58 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:58 GMT Message-Id: <201005171106.o4HB6w1m015740@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: gnats set sender to owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org using -f From: FreeBSD bugmaster To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:59 -0000 Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- s bin/146277 geom gpart(8): gpart add -s 128M creates 1GB partition on 4 o kern/145818 geom [geom] geom_stat_open showing cached information for n p kern/145452 geom [geom] [panic] panic in geom_part_mbr when undoing des o kern/145042 geom [geom] System stops booting after printing message "GE o kern/144962 geom [geom] panic when accessing GPT disk with a large numb o bin/144943 geom [geom] gconcat(8) randomly "loses" all knowledge of JB o kern/144905 geom [geom][gpart] panic in gpart_ctlreq when unplugging ca o kern/144732 geom [geom] [patch] geom_cache erroneously decodes its on-d o bin/144521 geom geom(1) tool parsing non-subclass command broken o kern/143455 geom gstripe(8) in RELENG_8 (31st Jan 2010) broken o kern/142563 geom [geom] [hang] ioctl freeze in zpool f kern/142365 geom [geom] FreeBSD RAID1 (gmirror) is much slower than Lin o kern/141740 geom [geom] gjournal(8): g_journal_destroy concurrent error o kern/140352 geom [geom] gjournal + glabel not working o kern/135898 geom [geom] Severe filesystem corruption - large files or l o kern/134922 geom [gmirror] [panic] kernel panic when use fdisk on disk o kern/134113 geom [geli] Problem setting secondary GELI key o kern/134044 geom [geom] gmirror(8) overwrites fs with stale data from r o kern/133931 geom [geli] [request] intentionally wrong password to destr o bin/132845 geom [geom] [patch] ggated(8) does not close files opened a o kern/132273 geom glabel(8): [patch] failing on journaled partition f kern/132242 geom [gmirror] gmirror.ko fails to fully initialize o kern/131353 geom [geom] gjournal(8) kernel lock p docs/130548 geom [patch] gjournal(8) man page is missing sysctls o kern/129674 geom [geom] gjournal root did not mount on boot o kern/129645 geom gjournal(8): GEOM_JOURNAL causes system to fail to boo o kern/129245 geom [geom] gcache is more suitable for suffix based provid f kern/128276 geom [gmirror] machine lock up when gmirror module is used o kern/124973 geom [gjournal] [patch] boot order affects geom_journal con o kern/124969 geom gvinum(8): gvinum raid5 plex does not detect missing s o kern/123962 geom [panic] [gjournal] gjournal (455Gb data, 8Gb journal), o kern/123122 geom [geom] GEOM / gjournal kernel lock o kern/122738 geom [geom] gmirror list "losts consumers" after gmirror de f kern/122415 geom [geom] UFS labels are being constantly created and rem o kern/122067 geom [geom] [panic] Geom crashed during boot o kern/121559 geom [patch] [geom] geom label class allows to create inacc o kern/121364 geom [gmirror] Removing all providers create a "zombie" mir o kern/120091 geom [geom] [geli] [gjournal] geli does not prompt for pass o kern/115856 geom [geli] ZFS thought it was degraded when it should have o kern/115547 geom [geom] [patch] [request] let GEOM Eli get password fro o kern/114532 geom [geom] GEOM_MIRROR shows up in kldstat even if compile f kern/113957 geom [gmirror] gmirror is intermittently reporting a degrad o kern/113837 geom [geom] unable to access 1024 sector size storage o kern/113419 geom [geom] geom fox multipathing not failing back p bin/110705 geom gmirror(8) control utility does not exit with correct o kern/107707 geom [geom] [patch] [request] add new class geom_xbox360 to o kern/94632 geom [geom] Kernel output resets input while GELI asks for o kern/90582 geom [geom] [panic] Restore cause panic string (ffs_blkfree o bin/90093 geom fdisk(8) incapable of altering in-core geometry o kern/88601 geom [geli] geli cause kernel panic under heavy disk usage o kern/87544 geom [gbde] mmaping large files on a gbde filesystem deadlo o kern/84556 geom [geom] [panic] GBDE-encrypted swap causes panic at shu o kern/79251 geom [2TB] newfs fails on 2.6TB gbde device o kern/79035 geom [vinum] gvinum unable to create a striped set of mirro o bin/78131 geom gbde(8) "destroy" not working. s kern/73177 geom kldload geom_* causes panic due to memory exhaustion 56 problems total. 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(spawk@128.238.64.31) by acm.poly.edu with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 May 2010 15:10:12 -0000 Message-ID: <4BF2AD97.4010100@acm.poly.edu> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:09:11 -0400 From: Boris Kochergin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100330) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org References: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <20100426.103327.319083499807534535.imp@bsdimp.com> <1272367989.97887.47.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <31A502A0-DB53-4677-BF92-6DD826ED449C@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <31A502A0-DB53-4677-BF92-6DD826ED449C@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:10:15 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 10:33 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> >>> My opinion for the path forward: >>> (1) Send a big heads up about the future of ataraid(5). It will be >>> shot in the head soon, to be replaced be a bunch of geom classes >>> for each different container format. At least that seems to be >>> the rough consensus I've seen so far. We need worker bees to do >>> many of these classes, although much can be mined from the ataraid >>> code today. >>> >> Losing ataraid would be bad. I suspect there are a lot of installs >> using it - especially as there is no way to create any other mirror from >> sysinstall. However, I'm not actually sure that the functionality it >> provides is easy to push down into GEOM. >> >> ataraid depends on knowing a lot about the underlying hardware, in order >> to know which format of metadata to use. i.e. it needs to know that the >> disks are attached to (say) a Highpoint controller. >> > > This is unfortunately true, especially on older controllers. I think that there > are reasonable ways to address this though, by having CAM SIMs provide a > bit more information in their PATH_INQ response. > > Scott > I am thinking about trying to reimplement some ataraid stuff using GEOM as a summer programming exercise. Browsing the ataraid code, I notice that it tends to check both the PCI ID of the controller a disk is connected to, and a magic string identifying vendor-specific metadata belonging to the vendor of the controller. This leads me to believe that a lot of the pseudo-RAID formats can be used in GEOM without any knowledge of the controller type. Sure, some CPU time would be wasted tasting all the supported formats in this manner, but it seems negligible given the frequency at which it would occur. I suppose there is also the unlikely chance that non-metadata information happens to live at the same location the metadata would, and the PCI ID check in the ataraid code is used to reduce that possibility, but it seems like additional sanity checking of RAID parameters following the magic string would alleviate this. Thoughts? Also, has there been any progress in making PCI ID information available to GEOM cleanly? -Boris From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 17:49:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28325106564A for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697268FC0A for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id UAA02372; Sat, 22 May 2010 20:49:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1OFspK-0004J7-1H; Sat, 22 May 2010 20:49:34 +0300 Message-ID: <4BF8192D.10809@icyb.net.ua> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:49:33 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boris Kochergin References: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <20100426.103327.319083499807534535.imp@bsdimp.com> <1272367989.97887.47.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <31A502A0-DB53-4677-BF92-6DD826ED449C@samsco.org> <4BF2AD97.4010100@acm.poly.edu> In-Reply-To: <4BF2AD97.4010100@acm.poly.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:49:38 -0000 on 18/05/2010 18:09 Boris Kochergin said the following: > Scott Long wrote: >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 10:33 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: >>> >>>> My opinion for the path forward: >>>> (1) Send a big heads up about the future of ataraid(5). It will be >>>> shot in the head soon, to be replaced be a bunch of geom classes >>>> for each different container format. At least that seems to be >>>> the rough consensus I've seen so far. We need worker bees to do >>>> many of these classes, although much can be mined from the ataraid >>>> code today. >>>> >>> Losing ataraid would be bad. I suspect there are a lot of installs >>> using it - especially as there is no way to create any other mirror from >>> sysinstall. However, I'm not actually sure that the functionality it >>> provides is easy to push down into GEOM. >>> >>> ataraid depends on knowing a lot about the underlying hardware, in order >>> to know which format of metadata to use. i.e. it needs to know that the >>> disks are attached to (say) a Highpoint controller. >>> >> >> This is unfortunately true, especially on older controllers. I think >> that there >> are reasonable ways to address this though, by having CAM SIMs provide a >> bit more information in their PATH_INQ response. >> >> Scott >> > I am thinking about trying to reimplement some ataraid stuff using GEOM > as a summer programming exercise. Browsing the ataraid code, I notice > that it tends to check both the PCI ID of the controller a disk is > connected to, and a magic string identifying vendor-specific metadata > belonging to the vendor of the controller. This leads me to believe that > a lot of the pseudo-RAID formats can be used in GEOM without any > knowledge of the controller type. Just keep in mind the case when an HDD was used with a controller from one vendor and then moved to a different system with a different controller. So, pseudo-RAID label on disk may be different from actual pseudo-RAID hardware. -- Andriy Gapon