What is the panic message you see when the system crash? BTW, the 'failmode' property to wait is only available in OpenSolaris right now, not on s10u4.
- George Rustam wrote: > Today my production server crashed 4 times. THIS IS NIGHTMARE! > Self-healing file system?! For me ZFS is SELF-KILLING filesystem. > > I cannot fsck it, there's no such tool. > I cannot scrub it, it crashes 30-40 minutes after scrub starts. > I cannot use it, it crashes a number of times every day! And with every crash > number of checksum failures is growing: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > box5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ...after a few hours... > box5 ONLINE 0 0 4 > ...after a few hours... > box5 ONLINE 0 0 62 > ...after another few hours... > box5 ONLINE 0 0 120 > ...crash! and we start again... > box5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ...etc... > > actually 120 is record, sometimes it crashed as soon as it boots. > > and always there's a permanent error: > errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files: > box5:<0x0> > > and very wise self-healing advice: > http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A > Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool > from backup. > > Thanks, but if I restore it from backup it won't be ZFS anymore, that's for > sure. > > It's not I/O problem. AFAIK, default ZFS I/O error behavior is "wait" to > repair (i've 10U4, non-configurable). Then why it panics? > > Recently there were discussions on failure of OpenSolaris community. Now it's > been more than half a month since I reported such an error. Nobody even > posted something like "RTFM". Come on guys, I know you are there and busy > with enterprise customers... but at least give me some troubleshooting ideas. > i'm totally lost. > > just to remind, it's heavily loaded fs with 3-4 million files and folders. > > Link to original post: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=57425 > -- > This messages posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-code mailing list > zfs-code at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-code >