> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Brian > > I have a raidz2 pool with one disk that seems to be going bad, several errors > are noted in iostat. I have an RMA for the drive, however - no I am > wondering how I proceed. I need to send the drive in and then they will > send me one back. If I had the drive on hand, I could do a zpool replace. > > Do I do a zpool offline? zpool detach? > Once I get the drive back and put it in the same drive bay.. Is it just a zpool > replace <device>?
Just guessing you don't have hotswap drive bays, because you don't have an advance replacement warranty on your hardware. ;-) Which means you're going to have to shutdown anyway. So: I would zpool export. That will ensure drives are all stopped. Then I would make the faulted drive blink. Something like: while true ; do dd if=/dev/rdsk/baddisk of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=8000 ; sleep 1 ; done Make a note of which drive is the bad drive. Shutdown. Remove it. Boot up again. zpool import -a Now you will see the removed drive appearing as "offline" or whatever status is most helpful. Later, your new drive arrives. Don't attach it yet. Run the "format" command to get a list of drives in the system, and immediately quit (don't cause harm to your system with format!) shutdown, attach the new drive. Run "format" again, verify it's the same as before (new drive not available yet) You probably have to do something like devfsadm -Cv Run "format" again, and now you should easily be able to identify the new device name. It may or may not match the device name of the drive you removed. And finally, you can do the zpool replace _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
