From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 17:44:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104B41065670 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:44:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD18F8FC1B for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAMHiJmQ020939 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:44:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4CEAABF2.1050409@tundraware.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:44:18 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4CE94F25.3000609@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:44:19 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: oAMHiJmQ020939 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: More On Samba And Softupdates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:44:29 -0000 On 11/21/2010 2:16 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tim Daneliuk > wrote: > > > This drive is being used as a backup drive for all the workstations on > this particular network, and "reliable" is much more important than " > slightly faster". > > > As someone already said, SU is probably not the culprit here. I've used > Samba + SU for a long time with no such problems although I have no > current setups to verify. > > SU substantially increases disk IO, it's not 'slightly faster' it's much > faster. The error you see is probably the result of flaky drive or > controller as the additional IO provided by SU allows the flakiness to > show through. Although from what you describe my choice for the drive > would be gjournal + UFS. If you've got a lot of asynchronous IO that's a > better solution. > It looks like this may have been a loose cable. After reseating the cable and reinitializing the drive, it seems to be fine. I turned on softupdates and all seems well ... Thanks for responding... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com