What software are you running? There was a bug where offline device failure did not trigger hot spares, but that should be fixed now (at least in OpenSolaris, not sure about s10u6).
- Eric On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:57:42AM +1100, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > An interesting interpretation of using hot spares. > > Could it be that the hot-spare code only fires if the disk goes down > whilst the pool is active? > > hm. > > Nathan. > > Scot Ballard wrote: > > I have configured a test system with a mirrored rpool and one hot spare. > > I powered the systems off, pulled one of the disks from rpool to > > simulate a hardware failure. > > > > The hot spare is not activating automatically. Is there something more > > i should have done to make this work ? > > > > > > pool: rpool > > state: DEGRADED > > status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas > > exist for > > the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. > > action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'. > > see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q > > scrub: none requested > > config: > > > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > > rpool DEGRADED 0 0 0 > > mirror DEGRADED 0 0 0 > > c0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > c0d1s0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open > > spares > > c1d1s0 AVAIL > > > > errors: No known data errors > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -Scot > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com // > // Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869-6255 // > // Sun Microsystems Fax: +61 3 9869-6288 // > // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road Mobile: 0419 305 456 // > // Melbourne 3004 Victoria Australia // > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
