On Mon, November 23, 2009 11:44, sundeep dhall wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a test environment with 4 internal disks and RAIDZ option.
>
> Q) How do I simulate a sudden 1-disk failure to validate that zfs / raidz
> handles things well without data errors
>
> Options considered
> 1. suddenly pulling a disk out
> 2. using zpool offline

3.  Use dd to a raw device to corrupt small random parts of the disks
supporting the zpool.

> I think both these have issues in simulating a sudden failure

Probably now it's "all three"  :-(.

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