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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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