On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Eric Jaw <naisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I started using ZFS about a few weeks ago, so a lot of it is still new to me. 
> I'm actually not completely certain about "proper procedure" for repairing a 
> pool. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to clear the errors after the scrub, 
> before or after (little things). I'm not sure if it even matters. When I 
> restarted the VM, the checksum counts cleared on its own.

The counts are not maintained across reboots.


> On the first scrub it repaired roughly 1.65MB. None on the second scub. Even 
> after the scrub there were still 43 data errors. I was expecting they were 
> going to go away.
> 
> errors: 43 data errors, use '-v' for a list

What this means is that in these 43 cases, the system was not able to correct 
the error (i.e., both drives in a mirror returned bad data).


> This is an excellent question. They're in 'Normal' mode. I remember looking 
> in to this before and decided normal mode should be fine. I might be wrong. 
> So thanks for bringing this up. I'll have to check it out again.

The reason I was asking is that these symptoms would also be consistent with 
something outside the VM writing to the disks behind the VM’s back; that’s 
unlikely to happen accidentally with disk images, but raw disks are visible to 
the host OS as such, so it may be as simple as Windows deciding that it should 
initialize the “unformatted” (really, formatted with an unknown filesystem) 
devices. Or it could be a raid controller that stores its array metadata in the 
last sector of the array’s disks.


> memtest86 and memtest86+ for 18 hours came out okay. I'm on my third scrub 
> and the number or errors has remained at 43. Checksum errors continue to pile 
> up as the pool is getting scrubbed.
> 
> I'm just as flustered about this. Thanks again for the input.

Given that you’re seeing a fairly large number of errors in your scrubs, the 
fact that memtest86 doesn’t find anything at all very strongly suggests that 
this is not actually a memory issue.

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