SATA

下周一的8.0-BETA2会包含这个。CAM/AHCI是按照CAM框架重写的AHCI驱动（之前是ata(4)），提供了包括NCQ等硬件特性的支持，并改善了对SATA光驱的支持。与OpenBSD的实现不同，FreeBSD实现通过扩展CAM框架使其直接对ATA设备提供支持。

So I finally tried DragonFly on one of our test servers (not my desktop :-). It seems that DragonFly still have some issues with the SATA devices. I am trying to fix it, maybe by porting some good FreeBSD ATAng code.

DragonFly has gave us some good examples that how a user-friendly operating system should, and some different way on designing a MP-capable architecture. Thanks, Matt!

And finally, it happend.

On Monday, one of our server, running FreeBSD, panic’ed with “ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch”. This message is quite uncommon and should only happen when there is some “event” with the memory or hard disk.

I have suggested our administrator to reboot and do “fsck” on the volume, since it has very small block size and can not be checked background (I have made a change to warn about this to FreeBSD, and was MFC’ed to 5-STABLE so you will get the feature in 5.4-RELEASE). Unfortunatelly, the check is so slow and we start to suspect whether there is some hardware problem.