[OpenIndiana-discuss] pool messup

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> This is an entry level proliant, very standard gear. I cannot
> believe that you would be the first one using them with ZFS (those
> sell really well) Is the Jbod configured? I mean, are all the the
> drives correctly defined in whatever config utility provided at boot
> time?

Yes

> Are the drives in both chassis failing?

Yes

> Supermicro is affordable and pretty basic but I fear using them in any
> other way than what they were designed for. Is there something on
> those chassis that you were supposed to configure? Those devices are
> designed and tested with very traditional raid an jbod setups in
> mind... think if there is something you didnt do but you would need to
> do in case of setting up a traditional jbod storage...

We use supermicros on some rather largish servers, and they're very stable. Thee issue here is probably a driver or controller issue, see http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg32079.html

> Back when I had my problem I was testing all the drives 1 by 1 and all
> the cables, and all the different combinations of things... it was all
> useless. when something so fishy appears beware of the controllers. To
> make a memtest is a good idea, you could let it running over night, if
> memory corrupts probably there is some hardware problem in the
> motherboard.
> 
> Thats all that comes to my mind... is the hardrive order swapping
> between reboots?
> 
> But my bet is supermicro, or the way you configured the jbod utility.

The controller is running a firmware without RAID support, so everything's JBOD. The storage chassises don't have any configuration, they just have a SAS expander, that's all.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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