On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jeff Bacon <ba...@walleyesoftware.com>wrote:

> So, when you add a log device to a pool, it initiates a resilver.
>
> What is it actually doing, though? Isn't the slog a copy of the
> in-memory intent log? Wouldn't it just simply replicate the data that's
> in the other log, checked against what's in RAM? And presumably there
> isn't that much data in the slog so there isn't that much to check?
>
> Or is it just doing a generic resilver for the sake of argument because
> you changed something?
>

Good question. Here it takes little over 1 hour to resilver a 32GB SSD in a
mirror. I've always wondered what exactly it was doing since it was supposed
to be 30 seconds worth of data. It also generates lots of checksum errors.

-- 
Giovanni Tirloni
gtirl...@sysdroid.com
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Reply via email to