gmirror Issues

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Marten wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:53 -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
>> I am having a real hard time with gmirror.  I recently bought two new
>> 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them.  I think I am following  
>> the
>> directions, but I am not sure.
>>
> I have seen lockups, spontaneous reboots, corrupt filsystems on  
> 6.0  and
> 6.2
>
> trigger:
>
> 1.a disk io with rsync / scp >  say coping > 100Gb
> 1.b making backup with tar
> 2. full filesystems
>
> setup:
> -ata controller card
> -two ata disks (250Gb)

Try hunting around for the latest VIA test BIOS for the ITX M-series  
miniboards (check the viaarea.com web-forums, IIRC)...before updating  
to it, I tended to see fairly reproducible data corruption whenever  
accessing two or more IDE devices at the same time on a 600MHz VIA C3  
ITX system.

-- 
-Chuck