Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 19:33:07 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, "Daryl Richards" <daryl@isletech.net> Subject: Re: Replacing dead drives in ZRAID2 Message-ID: <20120502233312.4194B1065675@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4FA1BE10.3010200@isletech.net>
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On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:06:56 -0400, Daryl Richards wrote: >One way to simulate a "failure" with ZFS is to use dd to write trash data to the > underlying drive, and then scrub it to detect the errors and have it correct itself. Sure, but to me this is a soft failure: the drive is still powered-on, spinning, responding, etc... this works fine. I was trying to simulate hard failure, drive power failure, motor broke, ECB burnt, etc... with hardware RAID I would just yank the drive out. -Simon
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