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Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-18 21:18:02
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Mark <bacula-list AT nerdish DOT us>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:59:10 -0500
On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Mark wrote:

> Just checking to see if people are having success with storage daemon running 
> on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS and compression enabled?  I ask because I'm having 
> issues with the backups completing without any errors reported, but then an 
> immediate restore attempt fails due to block checksum mismatches, or trying 
> something like 'bls -j -v -V Full-0079 FileStorage1' will fail and exit with 
> a block checksum mismatch.
> 
> The pool is a raidz1 made up of 5 1.5TB drives.  I can run a scrub, get a 
> clean result, run a backup, then have a restore from that backup fail (only 
> for larger backups, small ones seem fine).  A scrub run after that will also 
> report errors, usually 1 or 2 out of roughly 600GB of data, and it will show 
> them as repaired.  I'm just trying to determine if I'm being bitten by the 
> SATA controller, it's an ' <ATI IXP700 AHCI SATA controller>' and I have to 
> set the storage type to IDE instead of AHCI and set 'hint.ahci.0.msi=0' in 
> loader.conf or the system can't even see the drives.  Or maybe what I'm 
> trying here is a bad idea?  I'd just like the compression without the 
> overhead and slowdown on the clients that comes from enabling compression in 
> the fileset.  I'm a FreeBSD neophyte, is the SATA/AHCI stuff just not good 
> yet or would much better results be likely with a newer board/controller?

I'm running FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS and compression enabled. No problems.

If you haven't already, start talking on the FreeBSD lists.

I also recommend trying a backup to a non-compressed area of your system.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org


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