Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-06-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Richard Elling From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Antonio S. Cofiño My question is, there is anyway to anticipate this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-05-31 Thread Weber, Markus
Antonio S. Cofiño wrote: [...] The system is a supermicro motherboard X8DTH-6F in a 4U chassis (SC847E1-R1400LPB) and an external SAS2 JBOD (SC847E16-RJBOD1). It makes a system with a total of 4 backplanes (2x SAS + 2x SAS2) each of them connected to a 4 different HBA (2x LSI 3081E-R (1068

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Elling
On May 30, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Antonio S. Cofiño wrote: Dear All, It may be this not the correct mailing list, but I'm having a ZFS issue when a disk is failing. The system is a supermicro motherboard X8DTH-6F in a 4U chassis (SC847E1-R1400LPB) and an external SAS2 JBOD

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-05-30 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-05-30 20:25, Antonio S. Cofiño wrote: Dear All, It may be this not the correct mailing list, but I'm having a ZFS issue when a disk is failing. I hope other users might help more on specific details, but while we're waiting for their answer - please search the list archives. Similar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failure chokes all the disks attached to the failing disk HBA

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: The best, proven solution is to not use SATA disks with SAS expanders. Since that is likely to be beyond your time and budget, consider upgrading to the latest HBA and expander firmware. I recently had the