[OmniOS-discuss] Debating Swapping 2TB with 4TB drives in RaidZ2 or Create new Vol and clone

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Mabis
Hey All, I am debating the idea of just swapping all my hard drives in my current 8x2TB RaidZ2 (all be it slowly) and let the environment resilver each drive than expand versus creating a new RaidZ2 on a different box and cloning the data over. Obviously i know of the Pros/Cons/Risks

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Debating Swapping 2TB with 4TB drives in RaidZ2 or Create new Vol and clone

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| I am debating the idea of just swapping all my hard drives in my | current 8x2TB RaidZ2 (all be it slowly) and let the environment | resilver each drive than expand versus creating a new RaidZ2 on a | different box and cloning the data over. | | Obviously i know of the Pros/Cons/Risks associated

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Debating Swapping 2TB with 4TB drives in RaidZ2 or Create new Vol and clone

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Mabis
I know the drive itself does 512b emulation but i would rather run 4K if theres a performance increase! thanks Matt - Original Message - From: Chris Siebenmann c...@cs.toronto.edu To: Matthew Mabis mma...@vmware.com Cc: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014

[OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
a zpool on one of our boxes has been degraded with several disks faulted ... * the disks are all sas direct attached * according to smartctl the offending disks have no faults. * zfs decided to fault the disks after the events below. I have now told the pool to clear the errors and it is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Debating Swapping 2TB with 4TB drives in RaidZ2 or Create new Vol and clone

2014-03-21 Thread Chris Siebenmann
| I know the drive itself does 512b emulation but i would rather run 4K | if theres a performance increase! What matters for OmniOS is what the drive reports as. If it reports honestly that it has a 4k physical sector size, ZFS will say 'nope!' even if the drive will accept 512b reads and

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: a zpool on one of our boxes has been degraded with several disks faulted ... * the disks are all sas direct attached * according to smartctl the offending disks have no faults. * zfs decided to fault the disks after the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Zach Malone wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: a zpool on one of our boxes has been degraded with several disks faulted ... * the disks are all sas

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Today Zach Malone wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: a zpool on one of our boxes has been

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: [...] it happened over time as you can see from the timestamps in the log. The errors from zfs's point of view were 1 read and about 30 write but according to smart the disks are