A failed drive causes system to hang

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Radio mlodych bandytów" <radiomlodychbandytow at o2.pl>


> Seeing a ZFS thread, I decided to write about a similar problem that I experience.
> I have a failing drive in my array. I need to RMA it, but don't have time and it fails rarely enough to be a yet another 
> annoyance.
> The failure is simple: it fails to respond.
> When it happens, the only thing I found I can do is switch consoles. Any command fails, login fails, apps hang.
>
> On the 1st console I see a series of messages like:
>
> (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
> (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Error 5, Periph was invalidated
> (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED
>
> I use RAIDZ1 and I'd expect that none single failure would cause the system to fail...

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