Hello Robert,

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 6:49:05 PM, you wrote:

RM> Hello Thomas,

RM> Saturday, March 17, 2007, 11:46:14 AM, you wrote:

TN>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Anton B. Rang wrote:
>>> It's possible (if unlikely) that you are only getting checksum errors on 
>>> metadata. Since ZFS always internally mirrors its metadata, even on 
>>> non-redundant pools, it can recover from metadata corruption which does not 
>>> affect all copies. (If there is only one LUN, the mirroring happens at 
>>> different locations on the same LUN.)

TN>> I thought about that but looking at the NFS server the real data should be
TN>> much much more than metadata so I would consider it unlikely. Also in the
TN>> now redundant setup we see checksum errors on both attached RAIDs

TN>> Any hints on how to track down the problem to the HBA, cables, RAID and so
TN>> on? We see similar things on all our machines with few exceptions. Talking
TN>> to local Sun folks we have been "warned" before that checksum errors will
TN>> show up and that it's considered normal. Nevertheless I really want to
TN>> know what they are about

RM> I have an opened CR for months now about the same problem - lot of
RM> CKSUM errors all seem to be only meta-data related which is highly
RM> unlikely.

We've reinstalled servers to U3 and SC3.2 and for last few days no
single CKSUM error (the same pools were imported) - so maybe something
wrong was with U2.

-- 
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 Robert                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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