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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:15:12 +0300
From:      Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Zpool on raw disk and weird GEOM complaint
Message-ID:  <cf9b1ee00906290315q68102c20u22aa7b0ffaf40c73@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090629094359.GB24054@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <20090629094359.GB24054@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Patrick M. Hausen<hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I have a system with 12 S-ATA disks attached that I set up
> as a raidz2:
>
> %zpool status zfs
> =A0pool: zfs
> =A0state: ONLINE
> =A0scrub: scrub in progress for 0h5m, 7.56% done, 1h3m to go
> config:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0NAME =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0STATE =A0 =A0 READ WRITE CKSUM
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0zfs =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0raidz2 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da2 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da3 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da4 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da5 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da6 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da7 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da8 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da9 =A0 =A0 ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da10 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0da11 =A0 =A0ONLINE =A0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0 0 =A0 =A0=
 0
>
> errors: No known data errors

I can't address your issue at hand, but I would point out that having
a raidz/raidz2 consisting of more than 9 vdevs is a BAD IDEA (tm). All
SUN documentation recommends using groups from 3 to 9 vdevs in size.
There are known cases where using more vdevs than recommended causes
performance degradation and more importantly, parity computation
problems which can result in crashes and potential data loss. In your
case, I would have the pool built as a group of 2 x 6-disk raidz.

Sincerely,
- Dan Naumov



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