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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:36:39 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@online.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (ZFS) zpool replace weirdness
Message-ID:  <20070724153639.GB12473@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1736829882.20070723231753@online.no>
References:  <20070719102302.R1534@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20070719135510.GE1194@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070719181313.G4923@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20070721065204.GA2044@garage.freebsd.pl> <1736829882.20070723231753@online.no>

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:17:53PM +0200, Sverre Svenningsen wrote:
> I've been playing around with zfs for a bit, and ran into a problem
> where i corrupted an entire drive (on purpose) by way of dd
> if=3D/dev/urandom of=3D/dev/ad12 .. as expected, the zpool noticed:
>=20
> su-2.05b# zpool status
>   pool: array1
>  state: ONLINE
> status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missin=
g or
>         invalid.  Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue
>         functioning in a degraded state.
> action: Replace the device using 'zpool replace'.
>    see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-4J
>  scrub: resilver completed with 0 errors on Mon Jul 23 23:05:53 2007
> config:
>=20
>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         array1      ONLINE       0     0     0
>           raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad10    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad12    UNAVAIL      0     0     0  corrupted data
>             ad14    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad16    ONLINE       0     0     0
>           raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad18    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad20    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad22    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ad24    ONLINE       0     0     0
>=20
> errors: No known data errors
>=20
>=20
> now i want to resilver that disk, but the problem is this:
>=20
> su-2.05b# zpool replace -f array1 ad12
> invalid vdev specification
> the following errors must be manually repaired:
> ad12 is in use (r1w1e1)
>=20
> but nothing is using that disk as far as i can tell! has anyone
> successfully done this?

It just works here, but the version I'm using is not yet committed,
maybe there was a fix in OpenSolaris.
You could try removing /boot/zfs/zpool.cache.

> would it be better to use slices instead of whole disks for zfs on
> freebsd? i want to get some experience with this so that i know
> what not to do when a disk breaks for real :)

Whole disks are fine.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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