On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:07:34PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
> > I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it
> > was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-)
> 
> Did it log the change of state?

unfortunately, no. can't see any specific zfs error message in my
kern.log, just the usual kernel scsi/sata/sd retry errors.

IMO, that's a problem.  hopefully will get fixed in a future release.

at minimum, it should log a degraded event in the zpool history - it has
logged the 'zpool replace ...' command there.


> Zfs is excellent - now if only Oracle would release it under a
> GPL2-compatible license...

can't see that happening.

it is, however, open source - just not GPL so can't be distributed
with the kernel. fortunately, there's no impediment to compiling and
installing the module yourself, or even having a dkms package to
automate the process.  

some distros (gentoo and arch iirc) even distribute binary modules - i'm
not convinced that that is entirely safe for them to do, but it's their
necks on the line, not mine.

craig

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craig sanders <[email protected]>
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