8.1-RELEASE: ZFS data errors

Mike Carlson carlson39 at llnl.gov
Mon Nov 8 19:01:34 UTC 2010


I'm having a problem with  stripping 7 18TB RAID6 (hardware SAN) volumes 
together.

Here is a quick rundown of the hardware:
* HP DL180 G6 w/12GB ram
* QLogic FC HBA (Qlogic ISP 2532 PCI FC-AL Adapter)
* Winchester Hardware SAN,

    da2 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0
    da2: <WINSYS SX2318R 373O> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
    da2: 800.000MB/s transfers
    da2: Command Queueing enabled
    da2: 19074680MB (39064944640 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2431680C)


As soon as I create the volume and write data to it, it is reported as 
being corrupted:

    write# zpool create filevol001 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 da8
    write# zpool scrub filevol001dd if=/dev/random
    of=/filevol001/random.dat.1 bs=1m count=1000
    write# dd if=/dev/random of=/filevol001/random.dat.1 bs=1m count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes transferred in 16.472807 secs (63654968 bytes/sec)
    write# cd /filevol001/
    write# ls
    random.dat.1
    write# md5 *
    MD5 (random.dat.1) = 629f8883d6394189a1658d24a5698bb3
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.2
    cp: random.dat.1: Input/output error
    write# zpool status
       pool: filevol001
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         filevol001  ONLINE       0     0     0
           da2       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da3       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da4       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da5       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da6       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da7       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da8       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors
    write# zpool scrub filevol001
    write# zpool status
       pool: filevol001
      state: ONLINE
    status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
         corruption.  Applications may be affected.
    action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
         entire pool from backup.
        see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 2437 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:14:20 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         filevol001  ONLINE       0     0 2.38K
           da2       ONLINE       0     0 1.24K  12K repaired
           da3       ONLINE       0     0 1.12K
           da4       ONLINE       0     0 1.13K
           da5       ONLINE       0     0 1.27K
           da6       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da7       ONLINE       0     0     0
           da8       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: 2437 data errors, use '-v' for a list

However, if I create a 'raidz' volume, no errors occur:

    write# zpool destroy filevol001
    write# zpool create filevol001 raidz da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 da8
    write# zpool status
       pool: filevol001
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         filevol001  ONLINE       0     0     0
           raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
             da2     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da3     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da4     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da5     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da6     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da7     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da8     ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors
    write# dd if=/dev/random of=/filevol001/random.dat.1 bs=1m count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes transferred in 17.135045 secs (61194821 bytes/sec)
    write# zpool scrub filevol001

    dmesg output:
    write# zpool status
       pool: filevol001
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    09:54:51 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         filevol001  ONLINE       0     0     0
           raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
             da2     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da3     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da4     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da5     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da6     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da7     ONLINE       0     0     0
             da8     ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors
    write# ls
    random.dat.1
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.2
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.3
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.4
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.5
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.6
    write# cp random.dat.1 random.dat.7
    write# md5 *
    MD5 (random.dat.1) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.2) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.3) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.4) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.5) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.6) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2
    MD5 (random.dat.7) = f5e3467f61a954bc2e0bcc35d49ac8b2

What is also odd, is if I create 7 separate ZFS volumes, they do not 
report any data corruption:

    write# zpool destroy filevol001
    write# zpool create test01 da2
    write# zpool create test02 da3
    write# zpool create test03 da4
    write# zpool create test04 da5
    write# zpool create test05 da6
    write# zpool create test06 da7
    write# zpool create test07 da8
    write# zpool status
       pool: test01
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test01      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da2       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test02
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test02      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da3       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test03
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test03      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da4       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test04
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test04      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da5       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test05
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test05      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da6       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test06
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test06      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da7       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test07
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: none requested
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test07      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da8       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors
    write# dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/random.dat.1 bs=1m count=1000
    1000+0 records in
    1000+0 records out
    1048576000 bytes transferred in 19.286735 secs (54367730 bytes/sec)
    write# cd /tmp/
    write# md5 /tmp/random.dat.1
    MD5 (/tmp/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    write# cp random.dat.1 /test01 ; cp random.dat.1 /test02 ;cp
    random.dat.1 /test03 ; cp random.dat.1 /test04 ; cp random.dat.1
    /test05 ; cp random.dat.1 /test06 ; cp random.dat.1 /test07
    write# md5 /test*/*
    MD5 (/test01/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test02/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test03/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test04/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test05/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test06/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    MD5 (/test07/random.dat.1) = f795fa09e1b0975c0da0ec6e49544a36
    write# zpool scrub test01 ; zpool scrub test02 ;zpool scrub test03
    ;zpool scrub test04 ; zpool scrub test05 ; zpool scrub test06 ;
    zpool scrub test07
    write# zpool status
       pool: test01
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:27:49 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test01      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da2       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test02
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:27:52 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test02      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da3       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test03
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:27:54 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test03      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da4       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test04
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:27:57 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test04      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da5       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test05
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:28:00 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test05      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da6       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test06
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:28:02 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test06      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da7       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

       pool: test07
      state: ONLINE
      scrub: scrub completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Nov  8
    10:28:05 2010
    config:

         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
         test07      ONLINE       0     0     0
           da8       ONLINE       0     0     0

    errors: No known data errors

Based on these results, I've drawn the following conclusion:
* ZFS single pool per device = OKAY
* ZFS raidz of all devices = OKAY
* ZFS stripe of all devices = NOT OKAY

The results are immediate, and I know ZFS will self-heal, so is that 
what it is doing behind my back and just not reporting it? Is this a ZFS 
bug with striping vs. raidz?


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