On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Which of these do you prefer? > > o System waits substantial time for devices to (possibly) recover in > order to ensure that subsequently written data has the least > chance of being lost. > > o System immediately ignores slow devices and switches to > non-redundant non-fail-safe non-fault-tolerant may-lose-your-data > mode. When system is under intense load, it automatically > switches to the may-lose-your-data mode.
Given how long a resilver might take, waiting some time for a device to come back makes sense. Also, if a cable was taken out, or drive tray powered off, then you'll see lots of drives timing out, and then the better thing to do is to wait (heuristic: not enough spares to recover). Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
