At the moment I am feverishly seeking advice for how to fix a broken ZFS
raidz2 I have (using FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE).
This is the current status:
$ zpool status
pool: tank
state: FAULTED
status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient
replicas for the pool to
On 02/15/2012 02:49 PM, Olaf Seibert wrote:
This is the current status:
$ zpool status
pool: tank
state: FAULTED
status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient
replicas for the pool to continue functioning.
action: Attach the missing device and online it
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Tiemen Ruiten tie...@dgr.am wrote:
The correct sequence to replace a failed drive in a ZFS pool is:
zpool offline tank da4
shutdown and replace the drive
zpool replace tank da4
Are you saying that you cannot replace a failed drive without
shutting down
On 02/15/2012 04:02 PM, Paul Kraus wrote:
Are you saying that you cannot replace a failed drive without
shutting down the system? If that is the case with FreeBSD then I
suggest that FreeBSD is not ready for production use. I know that
under Solaris you_can_ replace failed drives with no
While I'm not in need of upgrading my server at an emergency level, I'm
starting to think about it -- to be prepared (and an upgrade could be
triggered by a failure at this point; my server dates to 2006).
I'm actually more concerned with software than hardware. My load is
small, the current
On 15/02/2012 17:16, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
While I'm not in need of upgrading my server at an emergency level, I'm
starting to think about it -- to be prepared (and an upgrade could be
triggered by a failure at this point; my server dates to 2006).
I'm actually more concerned with software
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
version fits my needs for example.) Upgrading might perhaps save me from
changing all the user passwords (half a dozen, not a huge problem) and
software packages I've added.
(uname -a says SunOS fsfs 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc).
Or should I
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
While I'm not in need of upgrading my server at an emergency level, I'm
starting to think about it -- to be prepared (and an upgrade could be
triggered by a failure at this point; my server dates to 2006).
One of my most vital servers is a Netra
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote:
Is there an upgrade path from (I think I'm running Solaris Express) to
something modern? (That could be an Oracle distribution, or the free
There *was* an upgrade path from snv_134 to snv_151a (Solaris 11
Express) but I
