Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:50:43 +1100 From: Jurgen Weber <jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi0 timeout error zfs boot mount problem Message-ID: <50830EA3.6020001@theiconic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5081CE05.1010108@theiconic.com.au> References: <508090E8.4010300@theiconic.com.au> <5081CE05.1010108@theiconic.com.au>
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Hi Lastly, is there a way at boot time, some sysctl's or something I can set to bring zfs to a minimalistic state? Turn off features, etc to get this to mount? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks Jurgen On 20/10/2012 9:02 AM, Jurgen Weber wrote: > Guys > > Some more details on this, some insight would be greatly appreciated. > > As my day wore on trying to get this zpool to import or mount I have > learnt a few things. I think over time this issue has came about as > more and more data was added to the file systems. > > Some further details: > > Its a 8 disk raidz pool that the system boots from as well. The disk > are all 2TB. > The server has 16GB Of RAM, I notcied the day before this happen the > server was struggling with its RAM griding to a halt and dumping its RAM. > The issue is not hardware because I found another server (same one) > swapped the harddrives out took another 8GB of RAM and I have the same > problem. > The main data file systems have dedup and gzip compression on. > > I have booted from open/Oracle Solars 11 adn attempted to import and > the Solaris live CD will not import either. In the Solaris system the > disk detach from the system. > > I get the feeling that ZFS is hitting some root limit when attempting > to mount and its not finishing the job. > > Thanks > > Jurgen > > On 19/10/2012 10:29 AM, Jürgen Weber wrote: >> Team >> >> I have googled around for a solution and I see a lot of posts about >> firmware versions and patches for FreeBSD 8.*. >> >> I have a FreeBSD 9.1rc1 system, which was beta1 orginally and has >> been running for months. >> >> Now it will not boot, I get the following: >> >> "Trying to mount root from zfs:tank/root []..... >> mfi0: COMMAND 0Xffffff8000cb83530 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS >> (this just repeats). >> >> I have not seen this error before during normal runtime, _only_ >> during boot. >> >> Originally when I had the problem I could boot off a USB stick >> (9.1beta1 or rc1), run a 'zpool import -f tank' and it would work on >> the livecd. Rebooting and the main system would work. >> >> This time this work around does not work for me. When I am on the USB >> stick I can run a 'zpool import' and all of the disk are recognised, >> the pool is recognised and the file system is healthy. >> >> The Card is a H700 PERC, with 12.10.3 firmware in a Dell R515. >> Running FreeBSD 9.1-RC1, latest zfs and zpool versions. >> >> I have tried disabling the cache (mfiutil cache xxx disable). I have >> also gone into the Card settings and changed under advanced settings >> "adaptive forward read" to "read only". >> >> Any help, appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >
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