looks like we are running into : https://www.illumos.org/issues/2607
Mike On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 08:33 -0700, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > I'm referencing a rather different situation. Dropping power to a drive > while you're writing to it is quite different from breaking a mirror and > moving the disk to another machine. I've done this a couple of times, once > because the wall wart was on the wall rather than on a power strip and got > bumped. This time it was on a power strip that was hard to access and even > harder to see what I was doing. So I unplugged the wrong one. > > I've not had a problem dropping power to the system when it wedges, but I > have long standing nervousness about forcing systems down in that fashion. > So a cleaner solution would be nice. > First priority of course is to not pull the USB power until after the pool > has been exported ;-) > > I'd be quite interested in how you handled the device naming problem. I beat > myself silly a couple of years ago trying to find a clean way to replicate a > zfs pool based system image. In the end I gave up and just did manual > installs. > > > -------------------------------------------- > On Fri, 3/28/14, Michael Stapleton <michael.staple...@techsologic.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS > pool? > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > Date: Friday, March 28, 2014, 10:04 AM > > I'm not sure when things changed, but > way back in the OpenSolaris days, > I had the root drive in my laptop mirrored to an external > USB drive. > I never had problems back then. I would do a demonstration > where I would > remove the USB drive while the laptop was up and running, > and then plug > the USB submirror into another laptop and boot from it. > Never had a problem. I could even reattach the USB drive to > my laptop > and it would resilver automatically. > > Is the problem ZFS or USB or FMA? no idea. But the was a > regression of > sorts. > I don't think Solaris11 suffers from this. > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
