Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:37:34 +0000 From: Maikel Verheijen <Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com> To: Jim Harris <jim.harris@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvd disk on nvme controller not detected at boot-time Message-ID: <D066A167.9086%Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJP=Hc9UGNDy2iJ9xWvkf%2BT0uW-%2B-k-jQEhOf-StYHzpdk0zcA@mail.gmail.com> References: <D062AFA3.206A0%maikel.verheijen@redwood.com> <CAJP=Hc_0ujTGZ%2BN_=CJfJUxLiKF38uWADHqL9FR1xb5sYqLqpA@mail.gmail.com> <D065F5AF.901D%Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com> <CAJP=Hc9UGNDy2iJ9xWvkf%2BT0uW-%2B-k-jQEhOf-StYHzpdk0zcA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Jim, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Maikel Verheijen <Maikel.Verheijen@redwood= .com<mailto:Maikel.Verheijen@redwood.com>> wrote: Hi Jim, <snip> I'm currently running FreeBSD 10.0 with updates from freebsd-update. Would = FreeBSD 10.1-RC be safe for a production environment or would it be better = to wait until the real release? The machine is not used for production yet,= but we do want to go live with it in the near future. I currently use a = =93workaround=94, I=92m not loading ZFS at boot time but use a custom RC sc= ript to load the nvd module, test if the nvd0 disk is there, then load the = ZFS module. That seems to work for now, but having it work =93out of the bo= x=94 would be better, and a lot less prone to manual mistakes made by me :) I cannot recommend whether 10.1-RC would be safe for a production environme= nt, but you could certainly use 10.1-RC to at least confirm it fixes the is= sues described. You could also apply these two patches to your 10.0 kernel tree and rebuild= just nvme.ko. Thank you for your quick reply. We=92ll test 10.1-rc, then wait for 10.1 re= lease. We prefer to use the freebsd-update tool to keep the system up to d= ate rather than to build our own kernel. Best regards, -Jim Best regards, Maikel
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