Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Bad Blocks Handling

2007-08-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:00:10PM -0700, RL wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does ZFS flag blocks as bad so it knows to avoid using them in the future? > > No it doesn't. This would be a really nice feature to have, but > currently when ZFS tries to write t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Bad Blocks Handling

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Elling
RL wrote: > Hi, > > Does ZFS flag blocks as bad so it knows to avoid using them in the future? > > During testing I had huge numbers of unrecoverable checksum errors, which I > resolved by disabling write caching on the disks. Were the errors logged during writes, or during reads? Can you share

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Bad Blocks Handling

2007-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:00:10PM -0700, RL wrote: > Hi, > > Does ZFS flag blocks as bad so it knows to avoid using them in the future? No it doesn't. This would be a really nice feature to have, but currently when ZFS tries to write to a bad sector it simply tries few times and gives up. With C