I have an 8-drive ZFS array consisting of WD15EADS drives. One of my disks has started to fail, so I got a replacement disk. I have replaced a disk before by:
zpool offline tank /dev/da5 shutting down, swapping from old disk to new disk booting zpool replace tank /dev/da5 This worked fine. This time the failing disk was da3, and I tried the same thing: zpool offline tank /dev/da3 zpool status showed da3 offline. shut down, swapped old disk to new disk. When I booted again, I got: Code: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas raidz1 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 corrupted data da0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1 ONLINE 0 0 0 da2 ONLINE 0 0 0 da3 ONLINE 0 0 0 da4 ONLINE 0 0 0 da5 ONLINE 0 0 0 da6 ONLINE 0 0 0 da7 ONLINE 0 0 0 I switched back to the old disk and booted again and then I could access my data again, and da3 still showed as offline. I tried 'zpool online tank /dev/da3' and after a few seconds resilvering completed and all 8 drives are back online again, but with the 'dying' disk as da3 still. I tried shutting down WITHOUT first offlining /dev/da3, and swapping the disks, and when I booted I again got 'insufficient replicas'. Why am I getting this error, and how come it worked ok the last time I replaced a disk? And more importantly, how do I switch to my new replacement disk without losing data? Thanks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"