Here's a better link below. I have seen enough bad things happen to pool devices when hardware is changed or firmware is updated to recommend that the pool is exported first, even an HBA firmware update.
Either shutting the system down (where pool is hosted) or exporting the pool should do it. Always have good backups. Thanks, Cindy http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/gcfog.html#scrolltoc Considerations for ZFS Storage Pools - see the last bullet On 07/17/12 18:47, Damon Pollard wrote:
Correct. LSI 1068E has IR and IT firmwares + I have gone from IR -> IT and IT -> IR without hassle. Damon Pollard On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jason Usher <jushe...@yahoo.com <mailto:jushe...@yahoo.com>> wrote: Ok, and your LSI 1068E also had alternate IR and IT firmwares, and you went from IR -> IT ? Is that correct ? Thanks. --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Damon Pollard <damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com <mailto:damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com>> wrote: From: Damon Pollard <damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com <mailto:damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com>> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR -> IT firmware on the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i) To: "Jason Usher" <jushe...@yahoo.com <mailto:jushe...@yahoo.com>> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org <mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 5:05 PM Hi Jason, I have done this in the past. (3x LSI 1068E - IBM BR10i). Your pool has no tie with the hardware used to host it (including your HBA). You could change all your hardware, and still import your pool correctly. If you really want to be on the safe side; you can export your pool before the firmware change and then import when your satisfied the firmware change is complete. Export: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/gazqr/index.html Import: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/gazuf/index.html Damon Pollard On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Jason Usher <jushe...@yahoo.com <mailto:jushe...@yahoo.com>> wrote: We have a running zpool with a 12 disk raidz3 vdev in it ... we gave ZFS the full, raw disks ... all is well. However, we built it on two LSI 9211-8i cards and we forgot to change from IR firmware to IT firmware. Is there any danger in shutting down the OS, flashing the cards to IT firmware, and then booting back up ? We did not create any raid configuration - as far as we know, the LSI cards are just passing through the disks to ZFS ... but maybe not ? I'd like to hear of someone else doing this successfully before we try it ... We created the zpool with raw disks: zpool create -m /mount/point MYPOOL raidz3 da{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11} and diskinfo tells us that each disk is: da1 512 3000592982016 5860533168 The physical label (the sticker) on the disk also says 5860533168 sectors ... so that seems to line up ... Someone else in the world has made this change "while inflight" and can confirm ? Thanks. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org <mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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