[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie server testing...

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

On čt, 2012-10-25 at 05:05 -0700, John Doe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
[...]
> Then, for testing, I needed to put some data from an ext3 usb drive on 
> the raidz2... So I had to first install ext2 support:
>   pfexec pkgadd -d SFEe2fsprogs.pkg SFElibiconv SFEe2fsprogs
>   pfexec pkgadd -d SUNWext2fs.pkg SUNWext2fs

from where did you download these packages?

> It worked, but the file transfer (rsync -avH) was VERY slow (only 179G in 15 hours)...

It could be. Either USB support or ext2(3)fs is slow in your case.

> From the logs:
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usb4fc,c15) operating at hi speed (USB 2.x) on USB 2.0 external hub: storage at 1, scsa2usb0 at bus address 5
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 usba: [ID 349649 kern.info]     Sunplus Technology Inc. USB to Serial-ATA bridge ST2000DL00S2H7J90C602099     
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb0 is /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,62f at 1d/hub at 1/storage at 1
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,62f at 1d/hub at 1/storage at 1 (scsa2usb0) online
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 scsi: [ID 583861 kern.info] sd0 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd0 is /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,62f at 1d/hub at 1/storage at 1/disk at 0,0
> Oct 24 12:05:49 clust-2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,62f at 1d/hub at 1/storage at 1/disk at 0,0 (sd0) online
> Oct 24 12:09:58 clust-2 ufs: [ID 717476 kern.notice] NOTICE: mount: not a UFS magic number (0x0)
> Oct 24 12:22:07 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 800345 kern.notice] NOTICE:  info: mount_count=0
> Oct 24 12:22:07 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 854744 kern.notice] NOTICE: Setting ops, name=ext2fs
> Oct 24 12:22:07 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 302322 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2init end
> Oct 24 12:22:07 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 850434 kern.notice] NOTICE: DATAs_033: 13472722/244203520 files, 487818616/488378000 blocks
> Oct 24 12:55:50 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 118274 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2_iupdat 2
> Oct 24 12:57:00 clust-2 last message repeated 190 times
> Oct 24 12:57:24 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 118274 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2_iupdat 2
> Oct 24 13:03:30 clust-2 last message repeated 940 times
> Oct 24 13:04:15 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 118274 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2_iupdat 2
> Oct 24 13:10:23 clust-2 last message repeated 955 times
> Oct 24 13:10:24 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 118274 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2_iupdat 2
> Oct 24 13:16:25 clust-2 last message repeated 592 times
> ...
> Oct 25 03:03:41 clust-2 ext2fs: [ID 118274 kern.notice] NOTICE: ext2_iupdat 2
> Oct 25 03:10:01 clust-2 last message repeated 94 times
> 
> And that stops there at 3am because this morning I had been disconnected 
> and when I went to the server, there was some kind of "kernel" panic (I 
> think related to ext2fs) and it said something about dumping zfs stuff and 
> rebooting... but it got stuck there and never rebooted.
> I cannot find the panic message... is it written somewhere or only on the 
> screen?

As root you should write "savecore" and if crashdump was created and is
still on the disk, it will be exported to /var/crash/

> Is the ext2fs module stable?
> 

I was using it several times a year ago and it was good enough for me
but mostly for ext2 data transfer.

Please, contact me off the list and we can look at it.

> Thx,
> JD
> 

Best regards,

Milan