Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Roy, I read your question on OpenIndiana mail lists: how can you rebalance your huge raid, without implementing block pointer rewrite? You have an old vdev full of data, and now you have added a new vdev - and you want the data to be evenly spread out to all vdevs. I answer here beceause it is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Heh. My bad. Didnt read the command. Yes, that should be safe. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA), question about hot spare allocation

2011-02-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Following up to myself, I think I've got things sorted, mostly. 1. The thing I was most sure of, I was wrong about. Some years back, I must have split the mirrors so that they used different brand disks. I probably did this, maybe even accidentally, when I had to restore from backups at one

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 2011-02-06 05:58, Orvar Korvar wrote: Will this not ruin the zpool? If you overwrite one of discs in the zpool won't the zpool go broke, so you need to repair it? Without quoting I can't tell what you think you're responding to, but from my memory of this thread, I THINK you're forgetting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> Will this not ruin the zpool? If you overwrite one of discs in the > zpool won't the zpool go broke, so you need to repair it? As suggested, dd if=/dev/rdsk/c8t3d0s0 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=10, that will do its best to overwrite /dev/null, which the system is likely to allow :P Vennlige h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Will this not ruin the zpool? If you overwrite one of discs in the zpool won't the zpool go broke, so you need to repair it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-05 Thread rwalists
On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:43 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Is there a clever way to figure out which drive is which? And if I have to > fall back on removing a drive I think is right, and seeing if that's true, > what admin actions will I have to perform to get the pool back to safety? > (I've g

[zfs-discuss] Identifying drives (SATA)

2011-02-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I've got a small home fileserver, Chenowith case with 8 hot-swap bays. Of course, at this level, I don't have cute little lights next to each drive that the OS knows about and can control to indicate things to me. The configuration I think I have is three mirror pairs. I've got motherboard SA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-26 Thread Richard Elling
luxadm(1m) has a led_blink subcommand you might find useful. -- richard On Apr 25, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: > I have one storage server with 24 drives, spread across three controllers > and split into three RAIDz2 pools. Unfortunately, I have no idea which bay > holds which drive. F

Re: [zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: > I have one storage server with 24 drives, spread across three controllers > and split into three RAIDz2 pools. Unfortunately, I have no idea which bay > holds which drive. Fortunately, this server is used for secondary storage so > I can take i

[zfs-discuss] Identifying drives

2010-04-25 Thread Dave Pooser
I have one storage server with 24 drives, spread across three controllers and split into three RAIDz2 pools. Unfortunately, I have no idea which bay holds which drive. Fortunately, this server is used for secondary storage so I can take it offline for a bit. My plan is to use zpool export to take e