Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-23 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: > > Derrick Ryalls wrote: > >> > >> 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such > >> as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure?  Is there a way to take > >> the drive offl

RE: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-14 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: krad [mailto:kra...@googlemail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 09:19 To: Steve Polyack Cc: Derrick Ryalls; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ZFS disk replacement questions 2009/11/3 Steve Polyack > Derrick Ryalls wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-04 Thread krad
2009/11/3 Steve Polyack > Derrick Ryalls wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack >> wrote: >> >> >>> Derrick Ryalls wrote: >>> >>> 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to tak

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: > Derrick Ryalls wrote: >> >> 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such >> as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure?  Is there a way to take >> the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it down or something so

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Polyack
Derrick Ryalls wrote: 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to take the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it down or something so it is easy to identify? In my opinion you are best off using gla

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Polyack
Derrick Ryalls wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: Derrick Ryalls wrote: 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to take the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it d

ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Hello list, I plan on rebuilding my home fileserver next month with FreeBSD 8.0 x64 and will be using 4x 2TB drives in an external eSATA hotswap enclosure using RAIDZ. I have played around with FreeBSD in VirtualBox just to see how easy it is to deal with ZFS, but a few questions have come up for