Hello Pawel, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:10:11 PM, you wrote:
PJD> Hi. PJD> What do you think about adding functionality similar to disk's spare PJD> sectors - if a sector die, a new one is assigned from the spare sectors PJD> pool. This will be very helpful especially for laptops, where you have PJD> only one disk. I simulated returning EIO for one sector from a one-disk PJD> pool and as you know system paniced: PJD> panic: ZFS: I/O failure (write on <unknown> off 0: zio PJD> 0xc436d400 [L0 zvol object] 2000L/2000P DVA[0]=<0:4000:2000> PJD> fletcher2 uncompressed LE contiguous birth=11 fill=1 PJD> cksum=90519dcb617667ac:e96316f8a73d7efc:8ca812fc04509f9b:9b9632c6959cbd71): error 5 PJD> From what I saw, ZFS retried to write to this sector once again before PJD> panicing, but why not just try another block? And maybe remember the PJD> problematic block somewhere. Of course this won't safe us when read PJD> operation fails, but should work quite well for writes. PJD> Not sure how vdev_mirror works exactly, ie. if it needs both mirror PJD> components to be identical or if the only guaranty is that they have the PJD> same data, but not exactly in the same place. If the latter, proposed PJD> mechanism could be also used as a part of the self-healing process, I PJD> think. IIRC it was discussed here some time ago (check archives) and it was stated that ZFS does not require in mirror case block to be in the same position on all mirrors. Also in read scenario if you couldn't read you try to self-heal (it's now) and if you still can't write you write to new location. Now I don't know how it's with raid-z* -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
