Errors on a file on a zpool: How to remove?

[Rich]

zpool clear always clears the checksum column whenever I run it.

Then, as soon as I touch those files again, or run a scrub, the
checksum error numbers tick up on those three disks, and those entries
appear in /var/log/messages.

- Rich

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org> wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>>
>> Scrubbing repeatedly does nothing to remove the note about that error,
>> and I'd rather like to avoid trying to recreate a 7TB pool.
>
> If you have bad hardware, its quite possible for ZFS to get itself into a
> state that it cannot repair itself.  The claim about "never needs fsck" only
> applies if the hardware is doing what is expected of it. This especially
> goes for a pool with zero redundancy, like yours.
>
> Its pretty good that ZFS can report the checksum failures where with other
> filesystems wouldn't even know something's wrong until it starts returning
> garbled data or crashes the whole kernel.
>
> I presume you have already tried "zpool clear" ?
>
> - Andrew
>
>



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