> Oh, and regarding the original post -- as several > readers correctly > surmised, we weren't faking anything, we just didn't > want to wait > for all the device timeouts. Because the disks were > on USB, which > is a hotplug-capable bus, unplugging the dead disk > generated an > interrupt that bypassed the timeout. We could have > waited it out, > but 60 seconds is an eternity on stage.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound offensive. Anyway I think that people should know that their drives can stuck the system for minutes, "despite" ZFS. I mean: there are a lot of writings about how ZFS is great for recovery in case a drive fails, but there's nothing regarding this problem. I know now it's not ZFS fault; but I wonder how many people set up their drives with ZFS assuming that "as soon as something goes bad, ZFS will fix it". Is there any way to test these cases other than smashing the drive with a hammer? Having a failover policy where the failover can't be tested sounds scary... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
