kern/156691: [vmware] [panic] panic when using hard disks as
RAW devices within VMWare ESXi 4.1-u1
Helmut Schneider
jumper99 at gmx.de
Sun May 22 16:13:06 UTC 2011
Appendix:
I tried with BusLogic Parallel (FreeBSD-32bit), LSI Logic Parallel and LSI
Logic SAS (both FreeBSD-64bit). The problem remains (I hope that was what
you ment with "try using a different storage controller").
But what is interesting (and makes me think that the controller is not to
blame):
I re-partition the disk using gpart:
mfsbsd# gpart show da1
=> 34 156301421 da1 GPT (75G)
34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K)
162 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
4194466 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
8388770 20971520 4 freebsd-ufs (10G)
29360290 4194304 5 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
33554594 4194304 6 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
37748898 2097152 7 freebsd-ufs (1.0G)
39846050 4194304 8 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
44040354 4194304 9 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
48234658 8388608 10 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
56623266 16777216 11 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
73400482 8388608 12 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
81789090 62914560 13 freebsd-ufs (30G)
144703650 4194304 14 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
148897954 7403501 15 freebsd-ufs (3.5G)
mfsbsd#
I now copy ~30GB of data (actually a clone of a running system using vdisks)
to those partitons except for the designated / partition (da1p2). The system
does *not* panic. (I used rsync to push the data from the live system if it
is worth to mention it)
mfsbsd# df -h | grep da1
/dev/da1p2 1.9G 12K 1.8G 0% /mnt/da1
/dev/da1p4 9.7G 5.5G 3.4G 62% /mnt/da1/usr
/dev/da1p5 1.9G 290M 1.5G 16% /mnt/da1/var
/dev/da1p6 1.9G 804M 1.0G 44% /mnt/da1/var/log
/dev/da1p7 989M 143M 767M 16% /mnt/da1/var/amavis
/dev/da1p8 1.9G 998K 1.8G 0% /mnt/da1/var/spool
/dev/da1p9 1.9G 5.8M 1.8G 0% /mnt/da1/var/named
/dev/da1p10 3.9G 989M 2.6G 27% /mnt/da1/var/squid
/dev/da1p11 7.7G 1.9G 5.3G 26% /mnt/da1/var/www
/dev/da1p12 3.9G 1.3G 2.3G 35% /mnt/da1/var/db/mysql
/dev/da1p13 29G 18G 8.7G 67% /mnt/da1/var/vsftpd
/dev/da1p14 1.9G 118K 1.8G 0% /mnt/da1/tmp
/dev/da1p15 3.4G 31M 3.1G 1% /mnt/da1/home
mfsbsd#
But as soon as I rsync/dump/cp the / partition the panic occurs. Reliable.
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