On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
wrote:
> I would suggest something like this: While the system is still on, if the
> failed drive is at least writable *a little bit* … then you can “dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/FailedDiskDevice bs=1024 count=1024” … and then
> after the syste
I've found that when I build a system, it's worth the initial effort
to install drives one by one to see how they get mapped to names. Then
I put labels on the drives and SATA cables. If there were room to
label the actual SATA ports on the motherboard and cards, I would.
While this isn't foolproo
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Paul Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just about to build a ZFS system as a home file server in raidz, but I
> have one question - pre-empting the need to replace one of the drives if it
> ever fails.
> How on earth do you determine the actual physical drive that has faile
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Subject: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - how to determine which physical drive to
replace
Hi,
I'm just about to build a ZFS system as a home file server in raidz, but I
have one q
Hi,
I'm just about to build a ZFS system as a home file server in raidz, but I
have one question - pre-empting the need to replace one of the drives if it
ever fails.
How on earth do you determine the actual physical drive that has failed ?
I've got the while zpool status thing worked out, but h