limetech Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Download | Release Notes Note: if you see a crash or some other issue, please include a system log or your post will likely be ignored. This release is a refresh of the major components: - linux kernel to 3.1.0 - samba to 3.6.1 - netatalk to 2.2.1 linux - I have been monitoring and testing the 3.1 development. There are numerous driver changes. In particular, mvsas seems far more robust. Also r8169 has many changes, so in this release I have gone back to the kernel driver for Realtek devices. If you are using Realtek NIC's please report whether it still works or not with this release. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 samba - the 3.6 series includes support for Microsofts "SMB2" protocol. It does seem a bit "snappier" to me and overall faster transfer, though not dramatic. http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.1.html netatalk - mainly a bug fix release. Read about it here: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/2.2/ReleaseNotes2.2.1.html Also included in here is network bonding support. Actually I only enabled it in the kernel and included the 'ifenslave' command. Still working on GUI support, but some users have been able to get it working. Here's an overview: http://www.sgvulcan.com/network-interface-bonding-in-slackware-version-13-1/ Quote Link to comment
Kewjoe Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Thanks Tom! Installing... Quote Link to comment
gregoryx Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Thank you. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in hoping this is a step in the "solid" direction that leads to a release. Quote Link to comment
Rajahal Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Network bonding? Wow, didn't see that coming. Quote Link to comment
Zeron Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 samba - the 3.6 series includes support for Microsofts "SMB2" protocol. It does seem a bit "snappier" to me and overall faster transfer, though not dramatic. http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.1.html To use SMB2 you need to have: max protocol = SMB2 in smb.conf. It does not look like unRAID does this. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 samba - the 3.6 series includes support for Microsofts "SMB2" protocol. It does seem a bit "snappier" to me and overall faster transfer, though not dramatic. http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.1.html To use SMB2 you need to have: max protocol = SMB2 in smb.conf. It does not look like unRAID does this. Right. To enable SMB2, create a file in the 'config' directory on the flash called 'smb-extra.conf'. Inside this file, add this line: max protocol = SMB2 Then Stop/Start array. Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 unRAID #2 boots up OK. unRAID #1. Fail. we seem to have lost the LSI drivers for the M1015 (LSI SAS9220-8i). fixed. see bellow.. syslog attached. syslog-2011-10-28.txt Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I was just going to look into bonding, and remembered there were some posts on it here, so I cam here to search for them... then I see the new beta, and shut my mouth... you read my mind. Quote Link to comment
Irish FX4 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I copied over the files to my stick and rebooted and nada! Could not connect to server. Tried several time and still got the same. Copied back beta 11 and i can connect just fine! Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 I copied over the files to my stick and rebooted and nada! Could not connect to server. Tried several time and still got the same. Copied back beta 11 and i can connect just fine! Any ideas? Do you have a Realtek NIC? Please boot -beta13 and log in via console. Then copy the system log to the flash using this command, then post here: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog.txt Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 unRAID #2 boots up OK. unRAID #1. Fail. we seem to have lost the LSI drivers for the M1015 (LSI SAS9220-8i). syslog attached. From your posted system log, looks like this is being run inside VMware. Can you try running it natively? Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Sure can. i was just shutting down my ESXi when you posted this. Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Works like a champ on my bench box.... including r8169. Samba throughput (large file copy) is improved 15 to 20%. Graph is 2.5GB file copy to unprotected disk (no parity).... solid 480 mbps. Quote Link to comment
MikeL Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Thanks! You ended you absents with vengeance! Way to go. Everything is good so far! I have two Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 running with 3TB parity, 8 3TB data, and a few other smaller drives, so this should be a good test bed for b13. If I run in to any problems, I will post sys log, however, I have confidence that all will be fine. Quote Link to comment
nia Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Such a welcome update. I have a test box being established (to become production soon), details in my Pleiades thread , and will test this asap. I'm still in a build phase, so for my IBM M1015 cards, are there chance (i.e. should I test) the LSI 9240-8i is supported by the new kernel? I have some disks and can do targeted testing on ESXi as well as native if something is relevant for somebody? Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 False alarm on the M1015... EDIT: there is an issue with the m1015 driver../edit. Ok, I am not sure what went wrong there. i downgraded back to 12 and still had no card. (I saw it go past in the system post though) cut the power for a bit and I tore open the server reseated all the cards. rebooted to b12 natively. It worked fine (minus the fact i forgot my datastore drives are SSD's that report temps at 128c and shutdown the box), I upgraded back to B13. it booted fine natively. Booted back into ESXi and booted B13 as a guest... no issues this time.. ~shrug~ gremlins.. i think that is the first time in months that box has been powered off or rebooted. updated syslog, not that it is needed... syslog-2011-10-281.txt Quote Link to comment
One2go Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Also included in here is network bonding support. Actually I only enabled it in the kernel and included the 'ifenslave' command. Still working on GUI support, but some users have been able to get it working. Here's an overview: http://www.sgvulcan.com/network-interface-bonding-in-slackware-version-13-1/ Does this allow me to combine server 1 that has the Share "Movies" with a second server that also has the share "Movies" to appear as a combined share \\SomeServer\Movies\? Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Does this allow me to combine server 1 that has the Share "Movies" with a second server that also has the share "Movies" to appear as a combined share \\SomeServer\Movies\? No, it lets you use 2 network cards in the server so you have (theoretically) twice as much bandwidth in/out of the server. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 Also included in here is network bonding support. Actually I only enabled it in the kernel and included the 'ifenslave' command. Still working on GUI support, but some users have been able to get it working. Here's an overview: http://www.sgvulcan.com/network-interface-bonding-in-slackware-version-13-1/ Does this allow me to combine server 1 that has the Share "Movies" with a second server that also has the share "Movies" to appear as a combined share \\SomeServer\Movies\? No, but what do you think about that feature (of combining shares from separate servers like that)? Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 Does this allow me to combine server 1 that has the Share "Movies" with a second server that also has the share "Movies" to appear as a combined share \\SomeServer\Movies\? No, it lets you use 2 network cards in the server so you have (theoretically) twice as much bandwidth in/out of the server. Or redundant links. Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 No, but what do you think about that feature (of combining shares from separate servers like that)? Interesting.. an unRAID Server array... I can see how it would be handy if you have for example 3 HP microservers. I don't think I would use it personally. at least not at this point. However, once i fill my array, that might be pretty cool. You could sell an "expansion license" for maybe half price (with an option to upgrade to a full) that wont work as a stand alone server. Quote Link to comment
Auggie Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Samba throughput (large file copy) is improved 15 to 20%. Graph is 2.5GB file copy to unprotected disk (no parity).... solid 480 mbps. Is this under SMB2 or SMB1? Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Possible issue or Possible coincidence.. A drive redballed on me within 30 min of running beta13. it came up doing a parity check on first boot, so I let it run. the drive itself has a clean SMART report. I think this drive is on my LSI card not my MV8. This drive just got precleared a few days ago. SMART report === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 Serial Number: MJ1321YNG14A6A Firmware Version: MEAOA580 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Fri Oct 28 21:57:49 2011 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (38769) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 135 135 054 Pre-fail Offline - 107 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 129 129 024 Pre-fail Always - 543 (Average 542) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 149 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 132 132 020 Pre-fail Offline - 32 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2520 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 99 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 189 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 189 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 30 (Min/Max 23/39) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 General Purpose Logging (GPL) feature set supported General Purpose Log Directory Version 1 SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support] GP/S Log at address 0x00 has 1 sectors [Log Directory] SMART Log at address 0x01 has 1 sectors [summary SMART error log] GP Log at address 0x03 has 1 sectors [Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log] GP Log at address 0x04 has 7 sectors [Device Statistics] SMART Log at address 0x06 has 1 sectors [sMART self-test log] GP Log at address 0x07 has 1 sectors [Extended self-test log] GP Log at address 0x08 has 1 sectors [Reserved] SMART Log at address 0x09 has 1 sectors [selective self-test log] GP Log at address 0x10 has 1 sectors [NCQ Command Error] GP Log at address 0x11 has 1 sectors [sATA Phy Event Counters] GP Log at address 0x20 has 1 sectors [streaming performance log] GP Log at address 0x21 has 1 sectors [Write stream error log] GP Log at address 0x22 has 1 sectors [Read stream error log] GP/S Log at address 0x80 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x81 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x82 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x83 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x84 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x85 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x86 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x87 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x88 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x89 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x8f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x90 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x91 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x92 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x93 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x94 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x95 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x96 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x97 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x98 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x99 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0x9f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log] GP/S Log at address 0xe0 has 1 sectors [sCT Command/Status] GP/S Log at address 0xe1 has 1 sectors [sCT Data Transfer] SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors) No Errors Logged SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors) No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. SCT Status Version: 3 SCT Version (vendor specific): 256 (0x0100) SCT Support Level: 1 Device State: SMART Off-line Data Collection executing in background (4) Current Temperature: 30 Celsius Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature: 28/34 Celsius Lifetime Min/Max Temperature: 23/39 Celsius Under/Over Temperature Limit Count: 0/0 SCT Temperature History Version: 2 Temperature Sampling Period: 1 minute Temperature Logging Interval: 1 minute Min/Max recommended Temperature: 0/60 Celsius Min/Max Temperature Limit: -40/70 Celsius Temperature History Size (Index): 128 (34) Index Estimated Time Temperature Celsius 35 2011-10-28 19:50 28 ********* ... ..(120 skipped). .. ********* 28 2011-10-28 21:51 28 ********* 29 2011-10-28 21:52 29 ********** ... ..( 2 skipped). .. ********** 32 2011-10-28 21:55 29 ********** 33 2011-10-28 21:56 30 *********** 34 2011-10-28 21:57 30 *********** SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: Disabled Write: Disabled SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11) ID Size Value Description 0x0001 2 0 Command failed due to ICRC error 0x0002 2 0 R_ERR response for data FIS 0x0003 2 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS 0x0004 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS 0x0005 2 0 R_ERR response for non-data FIS 0x0006 2 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS 0x0007 2 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS 0x0009 2 3 Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy 0x000a 2 3 Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET 0x000b 2 0 CRC errors within host-to-device FIS 0x000d 2 0 Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS the Power-Off_Retract_Count bothers me, but it is not fatal. it just points out a possible backplane connection issue. syslog attached. I am going to rip the server open, swap out the LSI card for another one, swap that drive for a brand new out of the box (precleared) 3TB and let it rebuild. it is on a sas backplane so there is not to much cable monkeying i can do. i will pull the backplane and inspect it. I'll post any findings. syslog-2011-10-282.txt Quote Link to comment
One2go Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I would love to see something that allows separate servers to present a unified share. Same reason for what was already mentioned, as I toyed with the idea of turning a HP microserver into a server running a Beta version, but then it needs to be able to get integrated into the overall network. Quote Link to comment
JustinAiken Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 No, but what do you think about that feature (of combining shares from separate servers like that)? I would love to see this... 3TB drives are still too much more expensive than 2TB's for me, and once my server hits full this is exactly the type of solution I'd like to see... Plus it would be cool to have a "mini-server" that was small enough to take out of house, but joined the server at home, to keep the most vital data on... Anyways, happy to see movement on 5.0, thanks limetech! Quote Link to comment
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