On 1/26/15 20:11 , Greg Zartman via smartos-discuss wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greg Zartman via smartos-discuss wrote: >> >>> I believe mirroring is the best practice so that if one SSD dies, you >>> don't lose any data before the slog has time to write to the zpool. >>> >> >> You won't loose any data if a log device dies or is pulled. Logs are only >> read from to recover data, such as after a power failure which is why you >> should devices with power fail protection. >> > > > I wanted to follow up on this comment, as I just proved to myself that you > do lose your zones zpool if the log device fails. > > I've been testing with Intel 3700 SSDs and a couple SmartOS boxes I have. > On one of the boxes, I lost the log device and the zones zpool disappears > on a reboot. I reproduced it 2 times by just pulling the log device.
Can you please describe the exact series of operations that you did here? Including what, if any command line options were specified, and why the system rebooted? Was it something you explicitly did, something else? Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
