Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 17:32:04 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
To:        "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-fs2@jrv.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS scrub/selfheal not really working
Message-ID:  <20090529133204.GA82117@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <4A1FB268.2090404@jrv.org>
References:  <20090527155342.GA45258@hades.panopticon> <4A1DB3D1.6080003@modulus.org> <4A1FB268.2090404@jrv.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* James R. Van Artsdalen (james-freebsd-fs2@jrv.org) wrote:

> No, don't throw bad hardware away!  Save it for testing - it's much
> harder to find hardware with intermittent failures that may be useful
> for testing than hardware that is dead or doesn't fail in a short amount
> of time.

I think geom class will be more useful for this (predictable results)
maybe I should try writing one sometime. I my case I suspect power
supply, as it's stoch 400W which came with the chassis, and maybe (/very
likely) it doesn't support enough current on +12V line for 7 hdds.

> The old sectors are not freed if they are referenced by snapshots or
> clones.  Vacating a block would be a very expensive operation for ZFS in
> the general case.

In either case, I expect errors disappear after scrub, as in here:
http://blogs.sun.com/timc/resource/zfs-slide.jpg
and I don't see it.

-- 
Dmitry Marakasov   .   55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56  9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D
amdmi3@amdmi3.ru  ..:  jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru    http://www.amdmi3.ru



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090529133204.GA82117>