ZFS errors on the array but not the disk.
Robert Banz
rob at nofocus.org
Mon Oct 27 23:13:45 UTC 2014
Have you tried different hardware? This screams something's up anywhere in
the stack -- DRAM, cabling, controller...
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ok... This is just frustrating. I've trusted ZFS through many versions ...
> and pretty much ... it's delivered. There are five symptoms here:
>
> 1. after each reboot, resilver starts again... even if after the resilver I
> complete a full scrub.
>
> 2. seemingly random objects (files, zvols or snapshot items) get marked as
> having errors. when I say random, to be clear; different items each time.
>
> 3. none of the drives are showing errors in zpool status, neither are they
> chucking errors into dmesg.
>
> 4. errors are being logged against the vdev (only one of the two vdevs) and
> the array (half as many as the vdev).
>
> 5. The activity light for the recently replaced disk does not "flash"
> "with" the others in it's vdev during either resilver or scrub. This last
> bit might need some explanation. I realize that raidz-1 stripes do not
> always use all the disks, but "generally" the activity lights of the drives
> in a vdev go "together"... In this case, the light of the recently replaced
> drive is off much of the time ...
>
> Is there anything I can/should do? I pulled the new disk, moved it's
> partitions around (it's larger than the array disks because you can't buy
> 1.5T drives anymore) and then re-added it... so I've tried that.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the heads up. I'm following releng/10.1 and 271683 seems to
> be
> > part of that, but a good catch/guess.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Steven Hartland <smh at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> There was an issue which would cause resilver restarts fixed by
> *265253* <
> >> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=265253> which
> was
> >> MFC'ed to stable/10 by *271683* <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/
> >> base?view=revision&revision=271683>so you'll want to make sure your
> >> latter than that.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24/10/2014 19:42, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> >>
> >>> I manually replaced a disk... and the array was scrubbed recently.
> >>> Interestingly, I seem to be in the "endless loop" of resilvering
> >>> problem.
> >>> Not much I can find on it. but resilvering will complete and I can
> then
> >>> run another scrub. It will complete, too. Then rebooting causes
> another
> >>> resilvering.
> >>>
> >>> Another odd data point: it seems as if the things that show up as
> >>> "errors"
> >>> change from resilvering to resilvering.
> >>>
> >>> One bug, it would seem, is that once ZFS has detected an error...
> another
> >>> scrub can reset it, but no attempt is made to read-through the error if
> >>> you
> >>> access the object directly.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <
> zbeeble at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> What does it mean when checksum errors appear on the array (and the
> >>>>> vdev)
> >>>>> but not on any of the disks? See the paste below. One would think
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> there isn't some ephemeral data stored somewhere that is not one of
> the
> >>>>> disks, yet "cksum" errors show only on the vdev and the array lines.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Help?
> >>>>
> >>>>> [2:17:316]root at virtual:/vr2/torrent/in> zpool status
> >>>>> pool: vr2
> >>>>> state: ONLINE
> >>>>> status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool
> >>>>> will
> >>>>> continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
> >>>>> action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
> >>>>> scan: resilver in progress since Thu Oct 23 23:11:29 2014
> >>>>> 1.53T scanned out of 22.6T at 62.4M/s, 98h23m to go
> >>>>> 119G resilvered, 6.79% done
> >>>>> config:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
> >>>>> vr2 ONLINE 0 0 36
> >>>>> raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 72
> >>>>> label/vr2-d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> label/vr2-d1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-d2c ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native (resilvering)
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-d3b ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-d4a ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> ada14 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> label/vr2-d6 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> label/vr2-d7c ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> label/vr2-d8 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> raidz1-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e0 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e1 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e2 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e3 ONLINE 0 0 0
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e4 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e5 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e6 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>> gpt/vr2-e7 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size:
> >>>>> 512B
> >>>>> configured, 4096B native
> >>>>>
> >>>>> errors: 43 data errors, use '-v' for a list
> >>>>>
> >>>> The checksum errors will appear on the raidz vdev instead of a leaf if
> >>>> vdev_raidz.c can't determine which leaf vdev was responsible. This
> >>>> could happen if two or more leaf vdevs return bad data for the same
> >>>> block, which would also lead to unrecoverable data errors. I see that
> >>>> you have some unrecoverable data errors, so maybe that's what happened
> >>>> to you.
> >>>>
> >>>> Subtle design bugs in ZFS can also lead to vdev_raidz.c being unable
> >>>> to determine which child was responsible for a checksum error.
> >>>> However, I've only seen that happen when a raidz vdev has a mirror
> >>>> child. That can only happen if the child is a spare or replacing
> >>>> vdev. Did you activate any spares, or did you manually replace a
> >>>> vdev?
> >>>>
> >>>> -Alan
> >>>>
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