Do you know the CR numbers for this issue off the top of your head?  This is
a production issue for us as well and we'd like to try and file a contract
support request against it.

Mirrors would not solve our issue anyways as the unreliable part is the
iSCSI controller (of which the low-end storage device has only one) unless
we decided to mirror across two independent arrays.

William

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:28 PM
> To: Bob Friesenhahn
> Cc: William Yang; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] solaris for (sort of) centralized
> management of tiered storage
> 
> OpenSolaris zpools will hang for about 3 minutes when any iscsi LUN has
> issues, even with mirroring.
> 
> Search the forum (storage and zfs-discuss) archives and you'll find a
> handful of long threads about the issue.
> 
> --
> Dave
> 
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 May 2009, William Yang wrote:
> >
> >> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think OpenSolaris still has
> severe
> >> timeout issues when iSCSI LUNs disappear.ZFS also seems to choke up
> >> sometimes when a pool becomes degraded, but I'm not sure if that's
> >> because
> >> it's waiting for the iSCSI to timeout.
> >
> > If this is a concern, then using mirrors rather than raidz or raidz2
> > will surely help.  Of course that wastes 50% of the disk space.
> >
> > Bob
> > --
> > Bob Friesenhahn
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