[zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2009-07-22 Thread Daniel S
I am running basic mirroring in a server setup. When I pull out a hard drive and put it back in, it won't detect it and resilver it until I reboot the system. Is there a way to force it to detect it and resilver it in real time? Thank you. Dan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2009-07-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Daniel S wrote: I am running basic mirroring in a server setup. When I pull out a hard drive and put it back in, it won't detect it and resilver it until I reboot the system. Is there a way to force it to detect it and resilver it in real time? More info on your hardware is required. In

[zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Lionberger
I create two zfs's on one pool of four disks with two mirrors, such as... / zpool create tank mirror disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4 zfs create tank/fs1 zfs create tank/fs2/ Are fs1 and fs2 striped across all four disks? If two disks fail that represent a 2-way mirror, do I lose data? Brian.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2007-12-05 Thread Anton B. Rang
The file systems are striped between the two mirrors. (If your disks are A, B, C, D then a single file's blocks would reside on disks A+B, then C+D, then A+B again.) If you lose A and B, or C and D, you lose the whole pool. (Hence if you have two power supplies, for instance, you'd probably

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2007-12-05 Thread Dick Davies
On Dec 5, 2007 9:54 PM, Brian Lionberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I create two zfs's on one pool of four disks with two mirrors, such as... / zpool create tank mirror disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4 zfs create tank/fs1 zfs create tank/fs2/ Are fs1 and fs2 striped across all four disks? Yes