Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-13 Thread Richard Elling
comments below... On May 12, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-05-12 7:01, Jim Klimov wrote: >> Overall the applied question is whether the disk will >> make it back into the live pool (ultimately with no >> continuous resilvering), and how fast that can be done - >> I don't want to risk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Gonczi
Jim, This makes sense. fmdump -eV reported that your original drive was experiencing repeated fread failures ( scsi command code 0x28) Steve - Original Message - Well, I decided to bite the bullet and kick the original disk from the pool after replacing it with the spare, an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-12 7:01, Jim Klimov wrote: Overall the applied question is whether the disk will make it back into the live pool (ultimately with no continuous resilvering), and how fast that can be done - I don't want to risk the big pool with nonredundant arrays for too long. Here lies another "grump

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Klimov
Thanks for staying tuned! ;) 2012-05-12 18:34, Richard Elling wrote: On May 12, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-05-11 14:22, Jim Klimov wrote: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers rest

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Richard Elling
On May 12, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-05-11 14:22, Jim Klimov wrote: >> What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering >> process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the >> pool because of resilvers restarting... > > FOLLOW-UP AND NEW QUESTIONS > > Here is a new p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-12 15:52, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-05-11 14:22, Jim Klimov wrote: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... Guess I must assume that the disk is dying indeed, losing connection o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-11 14:22, Jim Klimov wrote: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... FOLLOW-UP AND NEW QUESTIONS Here is a new piece of evidence - I've finally got something out of fmdump - se

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-12 4:26, Jim Klimov wrote: Wonder if things would get better or worse if I kick one of the drives (i.e. hotspare c5t6d0) out of the equation: raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spare ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 6.72G resilvered c5t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c6t5d0 ONL

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-12 5:50, Robert Milkowski wrote: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... Well, for the night I rebooted the machine into single-user mode, to rule out zones, crontabs and netw

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
> -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > Sent: 12 May 2012 01:27 > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times > &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-11 17:18, Bob Friesenhahn написал: On Fri, 11 May 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, SHORT VERSION: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... I recall that with sufficiently

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-11 17:18, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, SHORT VERSION: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... I recall that with sufficiently ol

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 May 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, SHORT VERSION: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... I recall that with sufficiently old vintage zfs, resilver would restart if

[zfs-discuss] Resilver restarting several times

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, SHORT VERSION: What conditions can cause the reset of the resilvering process? My lost-and-found disk can't get back into the pool because of resilvers restarting... LONG VERSION: I maintain a number of older systems, and among them a Sun Thumper (X4500) running OpenSolaris SXCE