File Systems

The following file system bugs apply to the Solaris 10 release.

x86: raidctl Fails to Create VDs on Dell SAS6i/R (6669169)

Dell SAS 6 HBA (LSI 1068) firmware versions starting with 0.20.46.00-IR introduce an incompatibility which might prevent lsiutil and raidctl(1M) commands from successfully configuring virtual drives. After the failure, the physical drives will enter an offline state and not be accessible. The raidctl(1M) which is included with the Solaris 10 5/08 release is affected as well as lsiutil from version 5.07.04 of the ITImpt package.

The following error message is displayed:

# /usr/sbin/raidctl -C "0.3.0 0.4.0" -s 64k 0
Creating RAID volume will destroy all data on spare space of member
disks, proceed (yes/no)?

Operation failed

Workaround: Configure virtual drives using the SAS configuration utility. To access the SAS configuration utility, enter Control-C when prompted during the BIOS boot sequence.

x86: ata Timeouts During Boot (6586621)

ata driver timeouts might occur during system boot on Intel multiprocessor systems. These timeouts occur when the root device is on a drive with the HBA controller bound to the legacy ata driver. These timeouts lead to a momentary hang, hard hang, or a panic during system boot with console messages similar to the following:

scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0
gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
        Error for command 'read sector'   Error Level: Informational
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Sense Key: aborted command
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
        Error for command 'read sector'   Error Level: Informational
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Sense Key: aborted command
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0):
        timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0
gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
        Error for command 'read sector'   Error Level: Informational
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Sense Key: aborted command
gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]           Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:

• Workaround 1: Enable AHCI in BIOS if available on the system. Enabling this setting requires a reinstall of the Solaris OS.

• Workaround 2: Install Solaris on a disk on a controller which does not use the ata driver.

• Workaround 3: Disable MP in the BIOS setup so that a single processor is active.

• Workaround 4: Disable MP in Solaris so that a single processor is active. Perform the following steps from the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) menu:

  1. Type e to edit your selected Solaris entry.

  2. Navigate to the line that begins with kernel.

  3. Type e to switch to the GRUB edit mode.

  4. Append -kd to the line.

  5. Press Enter to accept the change.

  6. Type b to boot the selected Solaris entry.

  7. At the kbmd prompt, type the following command:

     use_mp/W 0 :c

  8. If you are performing a system boot, proceed to Step 10, otherwise install the Solaris 10 5/08 software.

  9. At the end of the installation, reboot the system. Repeat steps 1 through 7.

  10. To make this change permanent so that the above steps do not need to be repeated for subsequent boots, do the following:

      Become the super user, when the system boot is completed.

  11. Open the /etc/system file.

  12. Add the following line:

      set use_mp = 0

• Workaround 5: Disable microcode update. Type the following command:

  # mv /platform/i86pc/ucode /platform/i86pc/ucode.disabled

  Microcode update can be invoked manually after the system is up:

  # ucodeadm -u /platform/i86pc/ucode.disabled/intel-ucode.txt

zoneadm install Fails With a ZFS Legacy Mount (6449301)

If a non-global zone is initially configured with a ZFS file system to be mounted with the `add fs subcommand and specifies mountpoint=legacy, the subsequent zone installation fails. The following error message is displayed.

ERROR: No such file or directory:
cannot mount </zones/path/root/usr/local> in non-global zone to install:
the source block device or directory </path/local> cannot be accessed

Workaround: Add access to a ZFS file system after installing the non-global zone.

ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues

ZFS is designed to be a POSIX compliant file system and in most situations, ZFS is POSIX compliant. However, two edge case conditions exist when ZFS does not meet the POSIX compliance tests:

1. Updating ZFS files system capacity statistics.

2. Modifying existing data with a 100 percent full file system.

Related CRs:

• 6362314

• 6362156

• 6361650

• 6343113

• 6343039

fdisk -E Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)

If you use the fdisk -E command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, the pool becomes unusable and might cause an I/O failure or system panic.

Workaround:

Do not use the fdisk command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool. If you need to access a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, use the format utility. In general, disks that are in use by file systems should not be modified.

ZFS and Third-Party Backup Product Issues

The following are the issues with the Veritas NetBackup and Brightstor ARCserve Backup products.

Veritas NetBackup Does Not Back Up and Preserve Files With ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs (6352899)

The Veritas NetBackup product can be used to back up ZFS files, and this configuration is supported. However, this product does not currently support backing up or restoring NFSv4-style ACL information from ZFS files. Traditional permission bits and other file attributes are correctly backed up and restored.

If a user tries to back up or restore ZFS files, the NFSv4-style ACL information from ZFS files is silently dropped. There is no error message indicating that the ACL information from ZFS files has been dropped.

Support for ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs is under development and is expected to be available in the next Veritas NetBackup release.

Workaround 1:

As of the Solaris 10 8/07 release, both the tar and cpio commands correctly handle ZFS files with NFSv4-style ACLs.

Use the tar command with the -p option or the cpiocommand with the -P option to write the ZFS files to a file. Then, use the Veritas NetBackup to back up the tar or cpio archive.

Workaround 2:

As an alternative to using Veritas NetBackup, use the ZFS send and receive commands to back up ZFS files. These commands correctly handle all attributes of ZFS files.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support

The BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) can be used to backup and restore ZFS files.

However, ZFS NFSv4-style ACLs are not preserved during backup. Traditional UNIX file permissions and attributes are preserved.

Workaround: If you want to preserve ZFS files with NFSv4-style ACLs, use the tar command with the -p option or the cpio command with the -P option to write the ZFS files to a file. Then, use BAB to backup the tar or cpio archive.

ZFS GUI Should Check For /usr/lib/embedded_su at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)

If you add the SUNWzfsg package from a Solaris 10 8/07 or Solaris 10 5/08 release to a system that runs a pre-Solaris 10 6/06 release, which does not have the embedded_su patch, the ZFS Administration application wizards are not fully functional.

If you attempt to run the ZFS Administration application on a system without the embedded_su patch, you will only be able to browse your ZFS configuration. The following error message is displayed:

/usr/lib/embedded_su: not found

Workaround:

Add the embedded_su patch (119574-02) to the system that runs a pre-Solaris 10 6/06 release.

Fails to Sync File System on Panic (6250422)

If a host panics with file system I/O occurring to a target, which is connected by using the Solaris iSCSI software initiator, the I/O might not be able to flush or sync to the target device. This inability to flush or sync might cause file system corruption. No error message is displayed.

Workaround:

Use the journaling file system like UFS. Starting with Solaris 10, UFS logging is enabled by default. For more information about UFS, see What’s New in File Systems? in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.

Upgrading From Some Solaris Express or Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems

After you upgrade an NFSv4 server from Solaris Express 6/05 to Solaris Express 7/05 or later (including all Solaris 10 updates), your programs might encounter EACCES errors. Furthermore, directories might erroneously appear to be empty.

To prevent these errors, unmount and then remount the client file systems. In case unmounting fails, you might need to forcibly unmount the file system by using umount -f. Alternatively, you can also reboot the client.

NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly

NFSv4 Access Control List (ACL) functions might work improperly if clients and servers in the network are installed with different previous Solaris 10 releases. The affected ACL functions and command-line utilities that use these functions are the following:

• acl()

• facl()

• getfacl

• setfacl

For more information about these functions and utilities, see their respective man pages.

For example, errors might be observed in a network that includes the following configuration:

• A client that is running Solaris 10 Beta software

• A server that is running Solaris 10 software

The following table illustrates the results of the ACL functions in client-server configurations with different Solaris 10 releases.

Workaround: For the NFSv4 ACL functionality to work properly, perform a full installation of the Solaris 10 OS on both the server and the client.

Access Problems Between Solaris NFSv4 Clients and NFSv4 Servers

In the current Solaris 10 version, Solaris implementation of NFSv4 Access Control Lists (ACL) is now compliant with RFC 3530 specifications. However, errors occur for NFSv4 clients that use the Solaris 10 Beta 2 or Beta 1 versions. These clients cannot create files in the NFSv4 servers that are using the current Solaris 10 release. The following error message is displayed:

NFS getacl failed for server_name: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)

Workaround: None.

Using mkfs Command to Create File System Might Fail on Very Large Disks (6352813)

The mkfs command might be unable to create a file system on disks with a certain disk geometry and whose sizes are greater than 8 Gbytes. The derived cylinder group size is too large for the 1-Kbyte fragment. The large size of the cylinder group means that the excess metadata cannot be accommodated in a block.

The following error message is displayed:

With 15625 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders
per group is 16. This requires the fragment size to be
changed from 1024 to 4096.
Please re-run mkfs with corrected parameters.

Workaround: Use the newfs command instead. Or, assign a larger fragment size, such as 4096, when you use the mkfs command.

System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte (6214480)

The system cannot generate a dump on a partition that is equal to or greater than 1 Tbyte in size. If such a device is on a system, the following might occur after the system boots subsequent to a system panic:

• The system does not save the dump.

• The following message is displayed:

  0% done: 0 pages dumped, compression ratio 0.00, dump failed: error 6

Workaround: Configure the size of your system's dump device to less than 1 Tbyte.

Using smosservice Command to Add OS Services Results in Insufficient Disk Space Message (5073840)

If you use the smosservice command to add OS services to a UFS file system, a message that there is insufficient disk space available is displayed. This error is specific to UFS file systems on EFI-labeled disks.

Workaround: Complete the following workaround.

1. Apply the SMI VTOC disk label.

2. Re-create the file system.

3. Rerun the smosservice command.