[zfs-discuss] Detecting erronous drives without TLER?

2010-12-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I've just setup a new system with 11 x 7-drive RAIDz2 VDEVS. Running iozone to benchmark and test the system, it seems it's running horribly slow. iostat -xd shows one (or two) drives slowing down the bunch, and zfs-stats.sh (by Alasdair, grab it from http://karlsbakk.net/zfs-stats.sh )

[zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I have installed a new server with 77 2TB drives in 11 7-drive RAIDz2 VDEVs, all on WD Black drives. Now, it seems two of these drives were bad, one of them had a bunch of errors, the other was very slow. After zfs offlining these and then zfs replacing them with online spares, resilver

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.netwrote: Hi all I have installed a new server with 77 2TB drives in 11 7-drive RAIDz2 VDEVs, all on WD Black drives. Now, it seems two of these drives were bad, one of them had a bunch of errors, the other was very slow.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hot spares are dedicated spares in the ZFS world. Until you replace the actual bad drives, you will be running in a degraded state. The idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded until your spares are no longer in use. --Tim Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Musante
On 5 Dec 2010, at 16:06, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Hot spares are dedicated spares in the ZFS world. Until you replace the actual bad drives, you will be running in a degraded state. The idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded until your

[zfs-discuss] 3TB HDD in ZFS

2010-12-05 Thread Fred Liu
Hi, Anyone who has experience with 3TB HDD in ZFS? Can solaris recognize this new HDD? Thanks. Fred ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't it be nice if ZFS could fail over to a spare and then allow the replacement as the new spare, as with what is done with most commercial hardware RAIDs? If you use zpool detach to remove the disk that went bad, the spare is promoted to a proper