ZFS Cache & Log Device Failure Handling

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Jason J. W. Williams" <jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> (from Thu,  
2 Sep 2010 13:30:51 -0600):

> How well does ZFS on FreeBSD handle a dying/wedged log and/or cache
> device? OpenSolaris handles this pretty well in my experience and will
> fail through relatively quickly. But this tends to rely on FMA. Thank
> you in advance.

No problem for the cache device. I have an USB memory stick as a cache  
device, and if I just remove it during operation, the system handles  
the situation. If you connect it again, you need to remove/readd it  
via zfs commands.

I do not use a log device.

Bye,
Alexander.

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