Eric Schrock wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:53:32AM -0800, Jim Hranicky wrote: >> - I know I can attach it via the zpool commands, but is there a way to >> kickstart the attachment process if it fails to attach automatically upon >> disk failure? > > Yep. Just do a 'zpool replace zmir <target> <spare>'. This is what the > FMA agent does in response to failed drive faults.
Sure, but that's what I want to avoid. The FMA agent should do this by itself, but it's not, so I guess I'm just wondering why, or if there's a good way to get to do so. If this happens in the middle of the night I don't want to have to run the commands by hand. >> - Is there something inherent to an old SCSI bus that causes spun- >> down drives to hang the system in some way, even if it's just hanging >> the zpool/zfs system calls? Would a thumper be more resilient to this? > > There are a number of drive failure modes that result in arbitrarily > misbehaving drives, as opposed to drives which fail to open entirely. > We are working on a more complete FMA diagnosis engine which will be > able to diagnose this type of failure and proactively fault the device. > > I'm not sure exactly what behavior you're seeing by 'spun-down drives', > so this may or may not address your issue. For instance, the zpool command hanging or the system hanging trying to reboot normally. Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
