Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-09 Thread Mark J Musante
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote: Is there a way to manually trigger a hot spare to kick in? Yes - just use 'zpool replace fserv 12589257915302950264 c3t6d0'. That's all the fma service does anyway. If you ever get your drive to come back online, the fma service should recognize that

[zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Tim Cook
Is there a way to manually trigger a hot spare to kick in? Mine doesn't appear to be doing so. What happened is I exported a pool to reinstall solaris on this system. When I went to re-import it, one of the drives refused to come back online. So, the pool imported degraded, but it doesn't seem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Tim, I'm not sure why your spare isn't kicking in, but you could manually replace the failed disk with the spare like this: # zpool replace fserv c7t5d0 c3t6d0 If you want to run with the spare for awhile, then you can also detach the original failed disk like this: # zpool detach fserv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Ian Collins
Tim Cook wrote: Is there a way to manually trigger a hot spare to kick in? Mine doesn't appear to be doing so. What happened is I exported a pool to reinstall solaris on this system. When I went to re-import it, one of the drives refused to come back online. So, the pool imported

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can you manually trigger spares?

2010-03-08 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Is there a way to manually trigger a hot spare to kick in? Mine doesn't appear to be doing so. What happened is I exported a pool to reinstall solaris on this system. When I went to re-import it, one of the drives refused to come