Hmm... it appears that my e-mail to the zfs list covering the problems has disappeared. I will send it again and cross my fingers.
The basic problem I found was that with the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card (using the marvell chipset), drive removals are not detected consistently by Solaris. There are at least four distinct possible reactions to a drive removal: - Ports 6 & 7 seem to be detected pretty much all the time. Cfgadm reports an empty bay straight away. - For ports 1-5, removal is not detected until you also remove a drive on port 6 or 7. - I've also seen Solaris lock completely on removal of a drive on ports 1-5, and hang until the drive is re-inserted. - I've seen Solaris crash completely a couple of times and never recover. The last two appeared completely random, I couldn't find any particular pattern to predicting when either behaviour would occur. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
