Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spare not so hot ??

2009-01-20 Thread Eric Schrock
What software are you running? There was a bug where offline device failure did not trigger hot spares, but that should be fixed now (at least in OpenSolaris, not sure about s10u6). - Eric On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:57:42AM +1100, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > An interesting interpretation of using h

Re: [zfs-discuss] hot spare not so hot ??

2009-01-20 Thread Nathan Kroenert
An interesting interpretation of using hot spares. Could it be that the hot-spare code only fires if the disk goes down whilst the pool is active? hm. Nathan. Scot Ballard wrote: > I have configured a test system with a mirrored rpool and one hot spare. > I powered the systems off, pulled on

[zfs-discuss] hot spare not so hot ??

2009-01-20 Thread Scot Ballard
I have configured a test system with a mirrored rpool and one hot spare. I powered the systems off, pulled one of the disks from rpool to simulate a hardware failure. The hot spare is not activating automatically. Is there something more i should have done to make this work ? pool: rpool sta