Re: Detecting failing drives - ZFS carries on regardless

Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> writes:

> As an example, the following is NOT ENOUGH for ZFS to fail a drive,
> because FreeBSD doesn't offline it. Would you want a drive like this
> in a production environment?
>
> Feb 17 16:20:48 zfs2 kernel: (da0:mps0:0:14:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00
> 02 c1 38 00 00 08 00 00
> Feb 17 16:20:48 zfs2 kernel: (da0:mps0:0:14:0): CAM status: SCSI
> Status Error
> ...

I haven't used it, but you might want to look into zfsd and see if it
will help.  It is supposed to watch for errors and handle them.

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