> In my experience it's often the resilvering process that triggers the > failure of the second drive -- and this is an issue with RAID in > general, > not just with ZFS. The reason is you're suddenly forcing a read of all > the > the data on all the remaining drives, and this can uncover latent > failures. > It's also not that uncommon for a hotspare to turn out to be bad -- > after > all, it's been spinning just as long as the rest of the disks. > > This is, incidentally, why I don't run single-parity RAID anymore. > That > and I like to stay in bed at night. ;)
This is double parity, double failure, and scrub has been run every month or so for over a year. Still, the problem persists, the resilver was restarted when the second drive died, which is rather a waste of time in regard to the initial resilver which was almost finished. 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
