Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Mark A. Carlson
fmd(1M) can log faults to syslogd that are already diagnosed. Why would you want the random spew as well? -- mark Carson Gaspar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not safe to jump to this conclusion. Disk drivers that support FMA won't log error messages to /var/adm/messages. As more

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Carson Gaspar wrote: It's not safe to jump to this conclusion. Disk drivers that support FMA won't log error messages to /var/adm/messages. As more support for I/O FMA shows up, you won't see random spew in the messages file any more. mode=large financial institution

[zfs-discuss] cp -r hanged copying a directory

2008-04-27 Thread Simon Breden
I installed b87 today and then I made a copy of a directory. To my surprise, a few seconds later the drive access light went out. Upon inspection, only a couple of the files had been copied, and the cp command appeared to have hung. I did: cp -r dir1 dir2 ps -el showed that cp was still

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG
Note: IANATZD (I Am Not A Team-ZFS Dude) Speaking as a Hardware Guy, knowing that something is happening, has happened or is indicated to happen is a Good Thing (tm). Begin unlikely, but possible scenario: If, for instance, I'm getting a cluster of read errors (or, perhaps bad blocks), I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Carson Gaspar
Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG wrote: I also *believe* (though am not certain - Perhaps someone else on the list might be?) it would be possible to have each *event* (so - the individual events that lead to a Fault Diagnosis) generate a message if it was required, though I have never taken

Re: [zfs-discuss] cp -r hanged copying a directory

2008-04-27 Thread Richard Elling
Simon Breden wrote: I installed b87 today and then I made a copy of a directory. To my surprise, a few seconds later the drive access light went out. Upon inspection, only a couple of the files had been copied, and the cp command appeared to have hung. I did: cp -r dir1 dir2 ps -el

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Ian Collins
Carson Gaspar wrote: Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG wrote: I also *believe* (though am not certain - Perhaps someone else on the list might be?) it would be possible to have each *event* (so - the individual events that lead to a Fault Diagnosis) generate a message if it was required,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Carson Gaspar
Ian Collins wrote: Carson Gaspar wrote: If this is possible, it's entirely undocumented... Actually, fmd's documentation is generally terrible. The sum total of configuration information is: FILES /etc/fm/fmd Fault manager configuration direc-

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs data corruption

2008-04-27 Thread Mark A. Carlson
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/selfheal.jsp -- mark Carson Gaspar wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Carson Gaspar wrote: If this is possible, it's entirely undocumented... Actually, fmd's documentation is generally terrible. The sum total of configuration information is: