On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Larry Hastings larrya...@hastings.org wrote:
Hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I've got a RAIDZ2 volume made of 14 SATA 1TB drives. The box they're in is
absolutely packed full; I know of no way to add any additional drives, or
internal SATA
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Larry Hastings wrote:
I could swap the dying drive with the fresh drive, then run an
in-place zpool replace. But the drive isn't [i]dead,[/i] it is
merely [i]dying[/i]. That seems like overkill.
I am a bit slow today. It seems like a dying drive should be replaced
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 12:18 AM, Brandon High wrote:
You should be able to export the volume and
physically replace the disk at that point.
Again, noob here, so just making sure I understand what you suggest:
1) zpool replace volume baddisk newdisk
2) zpool export volume
3) physically remove
I am a bit slow today. It seems like a dying drive should be replaced
ASAP.
Completely agree with Bob on this. I drive an 8.000lb truck and the
tires have industrial strength runflats. If I get a puncture or tear
in a tire I replace it as soon as I can, not when it is convenient.
The
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Larry Hastings wrote:
Again, noob here, so just making sure I understand what you suggest:
1) zpool replace volume baddisk newdisk
2) zpool export volume
3) physically remove baddisk and replace it with newdisk (which for
me requires shutting down, sigh)
4) zpool
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I don't see a need for the zpool export and import
unless you have a way to convert your USB drive
into an drive which works directly in your chassis.
Ah, but that's exactly what I've got. I'm not using a dedicated USB drive, I'm
using a simple
Umm, why do you need to do it the complicated way ? Here it is from zpool man
page-
zpool replace [-f] pool old_device [new_device]
Replaces old_device with new_device. This is equivalent
to attaching new_device, waiting for it to resilver, and
then detaching
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote:
Use a USB enclosure for the new drive, and do:
zfs replace bad_disk new_disk
You should be able to export the volume and physically replace the
disk at that point.
It was late when I wrote that, so let me clarify a few
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote:
4) zpool import volume
Alas--it did not work.
r...@elephant# zpool import home
cannot import 'home': no such pool available
I was able to import it by force:
r...@elephant# zpool import -d /dev/mapper home
I exported it
Hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I've got a RAIDZ2 volume made of 14 SATA 1TB drives. The box they're in is
absolutely packed full; I know of no way to add any additional drives, or
internal SATA connectors. I have a dying drive in the array (hereafter drive
N). Obviously I should
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