Hi all
I have installed a new server with 77 2TB drives in 11 7-drive RAIDz2 VDEVs,
all on WD Black drives. Now, it seems two of these drives were bad, one of them
had a bunch of errors, the other was very slow. After zfs offlining these and
then zfs replacing them with online spares, resilver
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have installed a new server with 77 2TB drives in 11 7-drive RAIDz2
> VDEVs, all on WD Black drives. Now, it seems two of these drives were bad,
> one of them had a bunch of errors, the other was very slow. After zfs
> offl
> Hot spares are dedicated spares in the ZFS world. Until you replace
> the actual bad drives, you will be running in a degraded state. The
> idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded
> until your spares are no longer in use.
>
> --Tim
Thanks for the clarification. Woul
On 5 Dec 2010, at 16:06, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> Hot spares are dedicated spares in the ZFS world. Until you replace
>> the actual bad drives, you will be running in a degraded state. The
>> idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded
>> until your spares are
> > Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't it be nice if ZFS could fail
> > over
> > to a spare and then allow the replacement as the new spare, as with
> > what
> > is done with most commercial "hardware" RAIDs?
>
> If you use "zpool detach" to remove the disk that went bad, the spare
> is promot
