Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hey, Dennis - > > I can't help but wonder if the failure is a result of zfs itself finding > some problems post restart... Yes, yes, this is what I am feeling also, but I need to find the data also and then I can sleep at night. I am certain that ZFS does not just toss out faults on a whim bec

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey, Dennis - I can't help but wonder if the failure is a result of zfs itself finding some problems post restart... Is there anything in your FMA logs? fmstat for a summary and fmdump for a summary of the related errors eg: drteeth:/tmp # fmdump TIME UUID

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Richard Elling
Dennis Clarke wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: However, I have repeatedly run into problems when I need to boot after a power failure. I see vdevs being marked as FAULTED regardless if there are actually any hard errors reported by the on disk SMART Firmware. I am able to re

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: Regardless, the point is that the ZPool shows no faults at boot time and then shows phantom faults *after* I go to init 3. That does seem odd. Yes, it does. I assume that you have already taken the obvious first steps and assured that your kernel an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> You would think so eh? >> But a transient problem that only occurs after a power failure? > > Transient problems are most common after a power failure or during > initialization. Well the issue here is that power was on for ten minutes before I tr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: You would think so eh? But a transient problem that only occurs after a power failure? Transient problems are most common after a power failure or during initialization. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> However, I have repeatedly run into problems when I need to boot after a >> power failure. I see vdevs being marked as FAULTED regardless if there >> are >> actually any hard errors reported by the on disk SMART Firmware. I am >> able >> to remove

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Honesty after a power failure

2009-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Dennis Clarke wrote: However, I have repeatedly run into problems when I need to boot after a power failure. I see vdevs being marked as FAULTED regardless if there are actually any hard errors reported by the on disk SMART Firmware. I am able to remove these FAULTed devices