On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:31:03AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
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> Eric, maybe I'm missing something, but why ZFS depend on devids at all?
> As I understand it, devid is something that never change for a block
> device, eg. disk serial number, but on the other hand it is optional, so
> we ca
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:31:03AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:39:55AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote:
> > Again, thanks to devids, the autoreplace code would not kick in here at
> > all. You would end up with an identical pool.
>
> Eric, maybe I'm missing something,
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:39:55AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote:
> Again, thanks to devids, the autoreplace code would not kick in here at
> all. You would end up with an identical pool.
Eric, maybe I'm missing something, but why ZFS depend on devids at all?
As I understand it, devid is something th
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:57:42PM -0700, Matt B wrote:
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> Literally, someone should be able to make $7/hr with a stack of drives
> and the ability to just look or listen to a server to determin which
> drive needs to be replaced.
>
> This means ZFS will need to be able to control the HDD Status
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:26:35PM -0700, Anton B. Rang wrote:
> A couple of questions/comments --
>
> Why is the REMOVED state not persistent? It seems that, if ZFS knows
> that an administrator pulled a disk deliberately, that's still useful
> information after a reboot. Changing the state to FA
Autoreplace is currently the biggest advantage that H/W raid controllers have
over ZFS and other less advanced forms of S/W raid.
I would even go so far as to promote this issue to the forefront as a leading
deficiency that is hindering ZFS adoption.
Regarding H/W raid controllers things are k
A couple of questions/comments --
Why is the REMOVED state not persistent? It seems that, if ZFS knows that an
administrator pulled a disk deliberately, that's still useful information after
a reboot. Changing the state to FAULTED is non-intuitive, at least to me.
What happens with autoreplace
