btw as of november there is likely new firmware for your lsi card. you might want to take this opportunity to upgrade.
j Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Maurilio Longo <maurilio.lo...@libero.it> wrote: > Geoff, > > I've hit this problem several times in the past, with OpenSolaris and then > with OpenIndiana. > > There are, to my knowledge, no available solutions, it is so by design! > > If a disk stops responding the pool waits until after it responds again > (sometimes pulling it out of its slot and then reinserting the disk causes a > reset of the link and it starts working again). > > I was not able to assess what happens if I set failmode to continue. > > I think it could be no better since you still cannot write to the pool. > > This is IMHO the biggest problem of ZFS, in that I cannot instruct it to stop > using a failed device if it has some level of redundancy still available. > > Wait is OK only if an entire vdev stops responding, not if a disk in a vdev > with redundancy has problems either fatal or transitory. > > Best regards. > > Maurilio. > > > PS. Using server grade disks (those with TLER) makes it possibile to overcome > this problem for transitory errors. > > > Geoff Nordli wrote: > >> Part of my concern is why one disk would have completely brought down >> the system. I have seen this come up on the list before, but I don't >> remember any resolutions to fixing it. >> >> Anyone have any clues to try to prevent this from happening in the future? >> >> thanks, >> >> Geoff >> > > -- > __________ > | | | |__| Maurilio Longo > |_|_|_|____| farmaconsult s.r.l. > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss