Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: About the only real improvement I'd like

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:23:39PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:28:28PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:37:18AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: About the only real improvement I'd like to see in this setup is

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-14 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:32:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: About the only real improvement I'd like to see in this setup is the ability to spin down idle drives. That would be an ideal setup for the home RAID array. There is a FreeBSD port which handles this,

ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, Recently, a ZFS pool on my FreeBSD box started showing lots of errors on one drive in a mirrored pair. The pool consists of around 14 drives (as 7 mirrored pairs), hung off of a couple of SuperMicro 8 port SATA controllers (1 drive of each pair is on each controller). One of the

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:45:24AM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: Recently, a ZFS pool on my FreeBSD box started showing lots of errors on one drive in a mirrored pair. The pool consists of around 14 drives (as 7 mirrored pairs), hung off of a couple of SuperMicro 8 port SATA controllers (1

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 12 September 2008 06:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, there is no such standard mechanism in FreeBSD. If the drive falls off the bus entirely (e.g. detached), I would hope ZFS would notice that. I can imagine it (might) also depend on if the disk

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Karl Pielorz wrote: Recently, a ZFS pool on my FreeBSD box started showing lots of errors on one drive in a mirrored pair. The pool consists of around 14 drives (as 7 mirrored pairs), hung off of a couple of SuperMicro 8 port SATA controllers (1 drive of each pair is on each

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On September 12, 2008 02:45 am Karl Pielorz wrote: Recently, a ZFS pool on my FreeBSD box started showing lots of errors on one drive in a mirrored pair. The pool consists of around 14 drives (as 7 mirrored pairs), hung off of a couple of SuperMicro 8 port SATA controllers (1 drive of each

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:34:30PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 12 September 2008 06:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, there is no such standard mechanism in FreeBSD. If the drive falls off the bus entirely (e.g. detached), I would hope ZFS would

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Did you try atacontrol detach to remove the disk from the bus? I haven't tried that with ZFS, but gmirror automatically detects when a disk has gone away, and doesn't try to do anything with it anymore. It certainly

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:04:22AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: What this does to other parts of the kernel and userland applications is something I haven't tested. I *can* tell you that there are major, major problems with detach/reattach/reinit on ata(4) causing kernel panics and other

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Karl Pielorz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: --On 12 September 2008 06:21 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, there is no such standard mechanism in FreeBSD. If the drive falls off the bus entirely (e.g. detached), I would hope ZFS

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:04:27PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Did you try atacontrol detach to remove the disk from the bus? I haven't tried that with ZFS, but gmirror automatically detects when a disk has gone

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:04:27PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try atacontrol detach to remove the disk from the bus? I haven't

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On September 12, 2008 09:32 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For home use, sure. Since most home/consumer systems do not include hot-swappable drive bays, rebooting is required. Although more and more consumer motherboards are offering AHCI -- which is the only reliable way you'll get that

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On September 12, 2008 09:32 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For home use, sure. Since most home/consumer systems do not include hot-swappable drive bays, rebooting is required. Although more and more consumer motherboards are

Re: ZFS w/failing drives - any equivalent of Solaris FMA?

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