Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:15:34AM -0800, Eric Schrock wrote: > > The 'failmode' property only applies when writes fail, or > read-during-write dependies, such as the spacemaps. It does not affect ^ That should read 'dependencies', obviously ;-) - Eric -- Eric Schro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Eric Schrock
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:52:48AM -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: > > Is "wait" the default behavior now? When I had CKSUM errors, reading > the file would return EIO and stop reading at that point (returning only > the good data so far). Do you mean it blocks access on the errored > file, or on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Peterson
Richard Elling wrote: > Adrian Saul wrote: >> Howdy, I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC >> hardware and ZFS not getting along. The problem is not the disks >> but the fact I dont have ECC and end to end checking on the >> datapath. What is happening is that random memory er

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... Adrian Saul wrote: > Howdy, > I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC hardware and ZFS > not getting along. The problem is not the disks but the fact I dont have ECC > and end to end checking on the datapath. What is happening is that random > memory errors

[zfs-discuss] ZFS error handling - suggestion

2008-02-18 Thread Adrian Saul
Howdy, I have at several times had issues with consumer grade PC hardware and ZFS not getting along. The problem is not the disks but the fact I dont have ECC and end to end checking on the datapath. What is happening is that random memory errors and bit flips are written out to disk and when