Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Something like spare sectors...

2007-04-11 Thread Darren Reed

Mark Maybee wrote:

Anton B. Rang wrote:

This sounds a lot like:

6417779 ZFS: I/O failure (write on ...) -- need to
reallocate writes

Which would allow us to retry write failures on
alternate vdevs.


Of course, if there's only one vdev, the write should be retried to a 
different block on the original vdev ... right?



Yes, although it depends on the nature of the write failure.  If the
write failed because the device is no longer available, ZFS will not
continue to try different blocks.


So if I unplug a USB hard drive at an inopertune time, ZFS will panic 
Solaris?


Or to put it differently, if power goes away from disk before the operating
system, things will go badly?

Darren

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Something like spare sectors...

2007-04-10 Thread Mark Maybee

Anton B. Rang wrote:

This sounds a lot like:

6417779 ZFS: I/O failure (write on ...) -- need to
reallocate writes

Which would allow us to retry write failures on
alternate vdevs.


Of course, if there's only one vdev, the write should be retried to a different 
block on the original vdev ... right?


Yes, although it depends on the nature of the write failure.  If the
write failed because the device is no longer available, ZFS will not
continue to try different blocks.

-Mark
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