ZFS: Can't repair raidz2 (Cannot replace a replacing device)

[Steven Schlansker]

On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Rich wrote:

> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-fs/2009/9/30/6457763 may be
> useful to you - it's what we did when we got stuck in a resilver loop.
> I recall being in the same state you're in right now at one point, and
> getting out of it from there.
> 
> I think if you apply that patch, you'll be able to cancel the
> resilver, and then resilver again with the device you'd like to
> resilver with.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem isn't that it's stuck
in a resilver loop (which is what the patch seems to try to avoid)
but that I can't detach a drive.

Now I got clever and fudged a label onto the new drive (copied the first
50MB of one of the dying drives), ran a scrub, and have this layout -

  pool: universe
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error.  An
        attempt was made to correct the error.  Applications are unaffected.
action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors
        using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'.
   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P
 scrub: scrub completed after 20h58m with 0 errors on Wed Dec 23 11:36:43 2009
config: 

        NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        universe                   DEGRADED     0     0     0
          raidz2                   DEGRADED     0     0     0
            ad16                   ONLINE       0     0     0
            replacing              DEGRADED     0     0 40.7M
              ad26                 ONLINE       0     0     0  506G repaired
              6170688083648327969  UNAVAIL      0 88.7M     0  was /dev/ad12
            ad8                    ONLINE       0     0     0
            concat/back2           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ad10                   ONLINE       0     0     0
            concat/ad4ex           ONLINE       0     0     0
            ad24                   ONLINE       0     0     0
            concat/ad6ex           ONLINE      48     0     0  28.5K repaired

Why has the replacing vdev not gone away?  I still can't detach -
[steven at universe:~]% sudo zpool detach universe 6170688083648327969
cannot detach 6170688083648327969: no valid replicas
even though now there actually is a valid replica (ad26)

Additionally, running zpool clear hangs permanently and in fact freezes all IO
to the pool.  Since I've mounted /usr from the pool, this is effectively
death to the system.  Any other zfs commands seem to work okay
(zpool scrub, zfs mount, etc.).  Just clear is insta-death.  I can't
help but suspect that this is caused by the now non-sensical vdev configuration
(replacing with one good drive and one nonexistent one)...

Any further thoughts?  Thanks,
Steven


> - Rich
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
>> Steven Schlansker wrote:
>>> 
>>> As a corollary, you may notice some funky concat business going on.
>>> This is because I have drives which are very slightly different in size (<
>>>  1MB)
>>> and whenever one of them goes down and I bring the pool up, it helpfully
>>> (?)
>>> expands the pool by a whole megabyte then won't let the drive back in.
>>> This is extremely frustrating... is there any way to fix that?  I'm
>>> eventually going to keep expanding each of my drives one megabyte at a
>>> time
>>> using gconcat and space on another drive!  Very frustrating...
>> 
>> You can avoid it by partitioning the drives to the well known 'minimal' size
>> (size of smallest disk) and use the partition instead of raw disk.
>> For example ad12s1 instead of ad12 (if you creat slices by fdisk)
>> of ad12p1 (if you creat partitions by gpart)
>> 
>> You can also use labels instead of device name.
>> 
>> Miroslav Lachman
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