Replacing dead drives in ZRAID2

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Wed May 2 17:50:54 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Simon <simon at optinet.com> wrote:
> I don't expect miracles from ZFS if hardware is not compatible. However,
> I did expect for ahd driver and Adaptec U320 to still be fairly common and
> well aged, thus being compatible, but perhaps that isn't the case.
>
> Is there a list of compatible controllers?
>
> I do not understand how formatting a drive using UFS would solve my
> issues. I pulled 2 drives out from functional zraid2 to simulate drive
> failure and the system froze. Clearly there is an issue using this controller with
> ZFS in ZRAID setup. It shouldn't matter what I have installed on a drive.
> When a drive is pulled out of hot-plug enclosure, it should get marked as
> offline.

Until you format drives with something other than ZFS and test
removing/plugging in a drive, you cannot say for certain that it's a
ZFS issue.  The error messages shown all come from ahd which is way
below ZFS.

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com


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