Comments on: Anyone else having problems with Solaris 10 and WD SATA drives? http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/03/18/anyone-else-having-problems-with-solaris-10-and-wd-sata-drives/ News and information about Sun Microsystems hardware and software Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jason http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/03/18/anyone-else-having-problems-with-solaris-10-and-wd-sata-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-12934 jason Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:11:12 +0000 http://www.sunhelp.org/?p=1916#comment-12934 One thing that would drive people back to (open)solaris would clearly be a kernel + userland as easy to compile and install as *BSD, but I yet have to see this. I'm not sure where solaris is heading with Oracle, whom has always been a huge linux supporter. One thing that would drive people back to (open)solaris would clearly be a kernel + userland as easy to compile and install as *BSD, but I yet have to see this.

I’m not sure where solaris is heading with Oracle, whom has always been a huge linux supporter.

]]> By: jason http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/03/18/anyone-else-having-problems-with-solaris-10-and-wd-sata-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-12933 jason Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:01:14 +0000 http://www.sunhelp.org/?p=1916#comment-12933 Phil: I've used FreeBSD 7 (on sparc, most obviously), ZFS seemed the right way to store and "exchange" data between my (open)solaris and freebsd system while having snapshots (which I like to abuse on). The sad part of this story is that the instability (which lead, in my case to a filesystem corruption) and lack of support (in the opensolaris forums) drove me away from the opensolaris project altogether, and I've ported (or had to) my code to linux, where a tiny portion still run on linux/(ultra)sparc, but sometimes I wonder for how long. Part of the reason why this code was on sparc in the first place is the high requirement in context switches. Things have, since then, changed in the linux scene, and filesystems with snapshot capabilities seems to surface, although, most obviously none is as advanced as ZFS at this time, knowing how the linux community moves fast, I wouldn't be surprised if things were looking much better next year. Phil:

I’ve used FreeBSD 7 (on sparc, most obviously), ZFS seemed the right way to store and “exchange” data between my (open)solaris and freebsd system while having snapshots (which I like to abuse on).

The sad part of this story is that the instability (which lead, in my case to a filesystem corruption) and lack of support (in the opensolaris forums) drove me away from the opensolaris project altogether, and I’ve ported (or had to) my code to linux, where a tiny portion still run on linux/(ultra)sparc, but sometimes I wonder for how long.

Part of the reason why this code was on sparc in the first place is the high requirement in context switches.

Things have, since then, changed in the linux scene, and filesystems with snapshot capabilities seems to surface, although, most obviously none is as advanced as ZFS at this time, knowing how the linux community moves fast, I wouldn’t be surprised if things were looking much better next year.

]]> By: Phil http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/03/18/anyone-else-having-problems-with-solaris-10-and-wd-sata-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-12932 Phil Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:44 +0000 http://www.sunhelp.org/?p=1916#comment-12932 Jason: Which release of FreeBSD were you using? The ZFS code in FreeBSD 7 was unquestionably not ready for production. Supposedly FreeBSD 8's ZFS code is finally stable, but I'd still hesitate to trust it in production. If I had to take a guess, my call would be that the odds are FreeBSD corrupted your ZFS diskset. Jason: Which release of FreeBSD were you using? The ZFS code in FreeBSD 7 was unquestionably not ready for production. Supposedly FreeBSD 8′s ZFS code is finally stable, but I’d still hesitate to trust it in production. If I had to take a guess, my call would be that the odds are FreeBSD corrupted your ZFS diskset.

]]> By: jason http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/03/18/anyone-else-having-problems-with-solaris-10-and-wd-sata-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-12931 jason Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:46 +0000 http://www.sunhelp.org/?p=1916#comment-12931 I had some similar problems, but I doubt they were drive related; and I ended up with a data corruption. Now let me explain how I did set things up. I am using a sun blade 150 (@650Mhz) with scsi drives, I have two operating systems on it, one (Open)Solaris (which I usually keep current) and FreeBSD/sparc. The reason there is that both have ZFS support, so I can easily 'mount' the ZFS partition on either operating system. Well, after a few months, and a few upgrades (which shouldn't have caused any problem) my ZFS partition got corrupted. I have no clue how this happened, but this drove me away from this very neat system... I have tried the drives on a linux (x86) system to check for bad blocks or anything, but I haven't found anything suspicious. Odd no? I've submitted messages on the solaris forum, but nobody was able to help, so I no longer run ZFS or OpenSolaris, which is a shame. I had some similar problems, but I doubt they were drive related; and I ended up with a data corruption. Now let me explain how I did set things up.

I am using a sun blade 150 (@650Mhz) with scsi drives, I have two operating systems on it, one (Open)Solaris (which I usually keep current) and FreeBSD/sparc. The reason there is that both have ZFS support, so I can easily ‘mount’ the ZFS partition on either operating system.

Well, after a few months, and a few upgrades (which shouldn’t have caused any problem) my ZFS partition got corrupted. I have no clue how this happened, but this drove me away from this very neat system… I have tried the drives on a linux (x86) system to check for bad blocks or anything, but I haven’t found anything suspicious.

Odd no? I’ve submitted messages on the solaris forum, but nobody was able to help, so I no longer run ZFS or OpenSolaris, which is a shame.

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