On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Simon Breden wrote: > Thanks myxiplx for the info on replacing a faulted drive. I think > the X4500 has LEDs to show drive statuses so you can see which > physical drive to pull and replace, but how does one know which > physical disk to pull out when you just have a standard PC with > drives directly plugged into on-motherboard SATA connectors -- i.e. > with no status LEDs?
This should be a wakeup call to make sure that this is all figured out in advance before the hardware fails. If you were to format the drive for a traditional filesystem you would need to know which one it was. Failure recovery should be no different except for the fact that the machine may be down, pressure is on, and the information you expected to use for recovery was on that machine. :-) This is a case where it is worthwhile maintaining a folder (in paper form) which contains important recovery information for your machines. Open up the machine in advance and put sticky labels on the drives with their device names. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
