Thanks for the input.
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 28, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>> 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. > > Yuck. What an ugly procedure :-( > > zpool offline is a better method. Just zpool offline <pool> <bad disk>? > > Identifying the location of the drive is OS, OS rev, and hardware dependent. > Some OSes are easier than others. For example in NexentaStor, the device > serial numbers are readily displayed, so you can verify the serial number of > the disk. MacOS also provides easy access to the disk serial number for > verification. I have all the disks labelled and got the serial number using prtconf. But I will double check before I ship it off :-) > > When the new disk arrives, do the zpool replace. Ok, I guess there are two scenarios I will encounter. (1) When I put the new drive in it will have the same name, then its just zpool replace <tank_name> <drive_name> (2) It has a different name. zpool replace <tank_name> <old_drive> <new_drive>. Is there any problem with #2 if the old device is gone? > > A detailed method for doing this on Solaris is in the ZFS Admin Guide. I took a look at that, but still had questions. Thanks! > -- richard > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
