Re: Apparently spurious ZFS CRC errors (was Re: ZFS data error without reasons)

From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell_at_salford.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:02:15 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Alexey Shuvaev wrote:

> I don't use zfs, just ufs2 + soft updates, but I see sometimes rather
> heavy data corruption (most often on / filesystem).
> No kernel messages, I can shut down the system successfully just
> to find the remnants of filesystems on the next boot.
> It doesn't happen often, I think compiling ports in a jail + some
> activity in the host increase the probability of a failure.
>
> The drive is:
> ATA channel 3:
>    Master:  ad6 <WDC WD5000AAKS-00C8A0/12.01C02> SATA revision 2.x
>
> hw.ata.wc=1 (default)

Have you tried turning WC off to see if it improves matters?
   Cheers.

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