How stable is it right now? I was talking with a friend yesterday about it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over 2 releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the other, so you ended up with corrupted file systems ... I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put onto the drives :( Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Marc G. Fournier wrote:> > How stable is it right now? I was talking with a friend yesterday > about it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over > 2 releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the > other, so you ended up with corrupted file systems ... > > I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x > that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put > onto the drives :( >It's working fine on our basic h/w platform (Supermicro P4SCE w/ Intel ICH5 SATA controller, single WD 80G drive) under FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4. I don't understand the claim that there isn't backward compatibility, unless that refers to the continually improving ATA RAID support as S?ren keeps working on the driver. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:>How stable is it right now? I was talking with a friend yesterday about >it, and he mentioned something about 3 re-write of the code over 2 >releases, and that each one wasn't backwards compatible with the other, so >you ended up with corrupted file systems ...I'm running on an ICH6 controller (no RAID) with a Seagate disk and don't have any problems, except frequent ATA timeouts at boot (only at boot, before mounting the root fs) but that appeared only after I updated to 5.4-STABLE on June 21 (never seen it before with 5.4-RELEASE or 5.4-STABLE before that date). Once it sucessfully managed to mount its root fs (typically about every 2nd boot attempt), I see no further problems.>I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x that is >currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put onto the >drives :(If you have a server with IDE or SATA, you might also be interested in the write barrier thread that's going on on -questions. mkb.
Marc G. Fournier wrote:> > I'm looking at upgrading my only SATA server to 5.x, since the 4.x > that is currently running on it is getting hangs whenever load is put > onto the drives :(IIRC you are using 3Ware hardware RAID with SATA drives, which is NOT same as using SATA drives. Your OS does not access SATA drives directly, and so SATA stabolity is not cause of your problems. There must be another cause. Check other hardware parts.