On 18-Jan-09, at 6:12 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote:

> Hey, Tom -
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS  
> any
> sort of redundancy to manage.

Which is particularly catastrophic when one's 'content' is organized  
as a monolithic file, as it is here - unless, of course, you have  
some way of scavenging that file based on internal structure.

--Toby

>
> I'm not sure how you can class it a ZFS fail when the Disk  
> subsystem has
> failed...
>
> Or - did I miss something? :)
>
> Nathan.
>
> Tom Bird wrote:
>> Morning,
>>
>> For those of you who remember last time, this is a different Solaris,
>> different disk box and different host, but the epic nature of the  
>> fail
>> is similar.
>>
>> The RAID box that is the 63T LUN has a hardware fault and has been
>> crashing, up to now the box and host got restarted and both came up
>> fine.  However, just now as I have got replacement hardware in  
>> position
>> and was ready to start copying, it went bang and my data has all  
>> gone.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>>
>> r...@cs4:~# zpool list
>> NAME      SIZE   USED  AVAIL    CAP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
>> content  62.5T  59.9T  2.63T    95%  ONLINE  -
>>
>> r...@cs4:~# zpool status -v
>>   pool: content
>>  state: ONLINE
>> status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in  
>> data
>>         corruption.  Applications may be affected.
>> action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise  
>> restore the
>>         entire pool from backup.
>>    see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
>>  scrub: none requested
>> config:
>>
>>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>         content     ONLINE       0     0    32
>>           c2t8d0    ONLINE       0     0    32
>>
>> errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:
>>
>>         content:<0x0>
>>         content:<0x2c898>
>>
>> r...@cs4:~# find /content
>> /content
>> r...@cs4:~# (yes that really is it)
>>
>> r...@cs4:~# uname -a
>> SunOS cs4.kw 5.11 snv_99 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
>>
>> from format:
>>        2. c2t8d0 <IFT-S12S-G1033-363H-62.76TB>
>>           /p...@7c0/p...@0/p...@8/LSILogic,s...@0/s...@8,0
>>
>> Also, "content" does not show in df output.
>>
>> thanks
>
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