ZFS RaidZ-2 problems

[Paul Wootton]

I've already posted this to freebsd-fs@ but still have no idea as to why 
the below has happened.


On 10/30/12 09:08, Paul Wootton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had lots of bad luck with SATA drives and have had them fail on 
> me far too often. Started with a 3 drive RAIDZ and lost 2 drives at 
> the same time. Upgraded to a 6 drive RAIDZ and lost 2 drives with in 
> hours of each other and finally had a 9 drive RAIDZ (1 parity) and 
> lost another 2 drives (as luck would happen, this time I had a 90% 
> backup on another machine so did not loose everything). I finally 
> decided that I should switch to a RAIDZ2 (my current setup).
> Now I have lost 1 drive and the pack is showing as faulted. I have 
> tried exporting and reimporting, but that did not help either.
> Is this normal? Has any one got any ideas as to what has happened and 
> why?
>
> The fault this time might be cabling so I might not have lost the 
> data, but my understanding was that with RAIDZ-2, you could loose 2 
> drives and still have a working pack.
> I do know the fault could also be the power supply, controller etc. I 
> can take care of all the hardware.
> The issue I have is, I have a 9 RAIDZ-2 pack with only 1 disk showing 
> as offline and the pack is showing as faulted.
> If the power supply was bouncing and a drive was giving bad data, I 
> would expect ZFS to report that 2 drives were faulted (1 offline and 1 
> corrupt)
>
> Is there a way with ZDB that I can see why the pool is showing as 
> faulted? Can it tell me which drives it thinks are bad, or has bad data?
>
> I do still have the 90% backup of the pool and nothing has really 
> changed since that backup, so if someone wants me to try something and 
> it blows the pack away, it's not the end of the world.
>
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>
>
> pool: storage
> state: FAULTED
> status: One or more devices could not be opened.  There are insufficient
>         replicas for the pool to continue functioning.
> action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
>    see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
>   scan: resilvered 30K in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sun Oct 14 12:52:45 2012
> config:
>
>         NAME                      STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         storage                   FAULTED      0     0     1
>           raidz2-0                FAULTED      0     0     6
>             ada0                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada1                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada2                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             17777811927559723424  UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was 
> /dev/ada3
>             ada4                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada5                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada6                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada7                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada8                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             ada10p4               ONLINE       0     0     0
>
> root at filekeeper:/storage # zpool export storage
> root at filekeeper:/storage # zpool import storage
> cannot import 'storage': I/O error
>         Destroy and re-create the pool from
>         a backup source.
>
> root at filekeeper:/usr/home/paul # uname -a
> FreeBSD filekeeper.caspersworld.co.uk 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 
> 10.0-CURRENT #0 r240967: Thu Sep 27 08:01:24 UTC 2012     
> root at filekeeper.caspersworld.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64