Thanks everyone who has tried to help. this has gotten a bit crazier, I
removed the 'faulty' drive and let the pool run in degraded mode. It would
appear that now another drive has decided to play up;
de-bash-4.0# zpool status
pool: data
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices has
Further update...
I have booted into system rescue cd again and ran 'badblocks -vws' on the
suspect drive. The strange thing is that it passed the test without one single
error ! Now I am stumped.
Am I right in expecting there to be some kernel DMA messages/errors if the
drive is having
Hello Brian
Thanks for this interesting post to the forum.
It's strange that you are not seeing the problem
hard drive behaving slowly when using Linux.
I think it strange also. Maybe I'll run up the system rescue CD again and
perform a 'badblocks' on the drive.
But then I think the
OK, changed the cable and the issue persists.
I think the drive is bad.
I'm going to boot into the system rescue CD and run a destructive bad blocks
test on that particular drive. It will probably take overnight being a 1TB
drive. At least my Raidz2 data should be preserved even although I'll
While not strictly a ZFS issue as such I thought I'd post here as this and the
storage forums are my best bet in terms of getting some help.
I have a machine that I recently set up with b130, b131 and b132. With each
build I have been playing around with ZFS raidz2 and mirroring to do a little
