Hi all,
I have a server that is build on top of an Asus board which is
equipped with an Areca 1680 HBA. Since ZFS like raw disks, I changed
its mode from RAID to JBOD in the firmware and rebootet the host.
Now, I do have 16 drives in the chassis and the line out like this:
root@vsm01:~# format
Searching for disks...done
c5t0d0: configured with capacity of 978.00MB
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c3t1d0 <SEAGATE-ST3300655SS-R001 cyl 36469 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,0
1. c3t1d1 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001 cyl 60799 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,1
2. c3t1d2 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001-465.76GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,2
3. c3t1d3 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001 cyl 60799 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,3
4. c3t1d4 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001 cyl 60799 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,4
5. c3t1d5 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001-465.76GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,5
6. c3t1d6 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001-465.76GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,6
7. c3t1d7 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001 cyl 60799 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@1,7
8. c3t2d0 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001-465.76GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,0
9. c3t2d1 <Seagate-ST3500320NS-R001-465.76GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,1
10. c3t2d2 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001 cyl 60782 alt 2 hd 255
sec 126>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,2
11. c3t2d3 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001-931.51GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,3
12. c3t2d4 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001-931.51GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,4
13. c3t2d5 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001-931.51GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,5
14. c3t2d6 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001 cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255
sec 126>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,6
15. c3t2d7 <Hitachi-HUA722010CLA330-R001-931.51GB>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,29f1@1/pci17d3,1680@0/disk@2,7
16. c5t0d0 <Generic-USB EDC-1.00 cyl 978 alt 2 hd 64 sec 32>
/pci@0,0/pci1043,819e@1d,7/storage@4/disk@0,0
Looked okay for me, so I went ahead an created a zpool containing two
mirrors like this:
root@vsm01:~# zpool create vsm_pool1_1T mirror c3t2d1 c3t1d6 mirror
c3t2d0 c3t1d5
This went just fine and the zpool was created like this:
root@vsm01:~# zpool status vsm_pool1_1T
pool: vsm_pool1_1T
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
vsm_pool1_1T ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t2d1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t1d6 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t1d5 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Now, creating another zpool from the remaining 500GB drives failed
with this weird error:
root@vsm01:~# zpool create vsm_pool2_1T mirror c3t1d4 c3t1d3mirror
c3t1d2 c3t1d1
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c3t2d1s0 is part of active ZFS pool vsm_pool1_1T. Please see
zpool(1M).
Anybody has an idea of what is going wrong here. It doesn't seem to
matter which of the drives I want to use for the new zpool, I am
always getting this error message - ven when trying only mirror c3t1d4
c3t1d3 or mirror c3t1d2 c3t1d1 alone.
Thanks,
budy
