It wouldn't be an LSI 3801/3081 board by any chance? I've seen some rather bad issues like this with those boards
roy ----- Original Message ----- > Indeed, right now zpool status -v is reporting only 1 unrecoverable > error. > However, other LUNs aren't recognized by VMWare as VMFS volumes > anymore. > > The server does have ECC memory, and an LSI SAS controller (no RAID, > ZFS > handles everything). We've had this in production for about 4 months > without issue until yesterday. I agree about mirror-8; I'm concerned > it may > also have problems. I did online one drive in mirror-3. The other > drive, > wouldn't online. > > At this point I want to get the two replacement drives I have > installed, > which goes back to one of my questions: what's the best method for > replacement with hot spare already in place? I've seen other > articles/posts > about simply using zpool detach pool_name failed_device, but I want to > make > sure I get that part right and don't cause further problems. Once I > know > those are in place, I'm going to run a full scrub in the evening. > > Thanks, > Eric Pierce > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Lucas Van Tol <catsey...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I think the re silver should have looked at all the data and given > > you the > > entire list of bad data, but I'm not entirely sure if re silvers > > look > > outside of the vdev they are fixing. > > A scrub would look at all the data and verify it. > > > > I note that your drives are out due to too many errors. > > Normally, I would say just replace them, but since you lost so many > > at > > once; it may be worth trying to force the drives online. > > I don't know how that will interact with the spares, but if the > > original > > drives can be brought online and a scrub run; one of the two drives > > may > > still have the missing data; after which a scrub may recover it. > > It would be a problem if the spare detached itself though, and I'm > > not sure > > how spares behave in such situations. > > > > > > Also; mirror 8 has more 'read' errors than I would trust. > > I find it suspicious that there are an equal #'s of failures on > > disks in > > that vdev. > > Have you had any memory or disk controller issues on the system, and > > are > > you using ECC memory? > > > > > > > > -Lucas Van Tol > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss