Hi Matt,
 
If it's all 3 disks, I wouldn't have thought it likely to be disk errors, and I 
don't think it's a ZFS fault as such.  You might be better posting the question 
in the storage or help forums to see if anybody there can shed more light on 
this.
 
Ross
> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 16:48:03 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] are 
> these errors dangerous> > Ross wrote:> > Hi,> > > > First of all, I really 
> should warn you that I'm very new to Solaris, I'll happily share my thoughts 
> but be aware that there's not a lot of experience backing them up.> > > 
> >>From what you've said, and the logs you've posted I suspect you're hitting 
> recoverable read errors. ZFS wouldn't flag these as no corrupt data has been 
> encountered, but I suspect the device driver is logging them anyway.> > > > 
> The log you posted all appears to refer to one disk (sd0), my guess would be 
> that you have some hardware faults on that device and if it were me I'd 
> probably be replacing it before it actually fails.> > > > I'd check your logs 
> before replacing that disk though, you need to see if it's just that one 
> disk, or if others are affected. Provided you have a redundant ZFS pool, it 
> may be worth offlining that disk, unconfiguring it with cfgadm, and then 
> pulling the drive to see if that does cure the warnings you're getting in the 
> logs.> > > > Whatever you do, please keep me posted. Your post has already 
> made me realise it would be a good idea to have a script watching log file 
> sizes to catch problems like this early.> > > > Ross> > Thanks for your 
> insights, I'm also relatively new to solaris but i've > been on linux for 
> years. I've just read more into the logs and its > giving these errors for 
> all 3 of my disks (sd0,1,2). I'm running a > raidz1, unfortunately without 
> any spares and I'm not too keen on > removing the parity from my pool as I've 
> got a lot of important files > stored there.> > I would agree that this seems 
> to be a recoverable error and nothing is > getting corrupted thanks to ZFS. 
> The thing I'm worried about is if the > entire batch is failing slowly and 
> will all die at the same time.> > Hopefully some ZFS/hardware guru can 
> comment on this before the world > ends for me :P> > Thanks> > Matt> > No 
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