An interesting interpretation of using hot spares. Could it be that the hot-spare code only fires if the disk goes down whilst the pool is active?
hm. Nathan. Scot Ballard wrote: > I have configured a test system with a mirrored rpool and one hot spare. > I powered the systems off, pulled one of the disks from rpool to > simulate a hardware failure. > > The hot spare is not activating automatically. Is there something more > i should have done to make this work ? > > > pool: rpool > state: DEGRADED > status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas > exist for > the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. > action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'. > see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q > scrub: none requested > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > rpool DEGRADED 0 0 0 > mirror DEGRADED 0 0 0 > c0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c0d1s0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open > spares > c1d1s0 AVAIL > > errors: No known data errors > > > > Thanks > > > -Scot > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Nathan Kroenert nathan.kroen...@sun.com // // Systems Engineer Phone: +61 3 9869-6255 // // Sun Microsystems Fax: +61 3 9869-6288 // // Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road Mobile: 0419 305 456 // // Melbourne 3004 Victoria Australia // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
