[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool in sorry state

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

It wouldn't be an LSI 3801/3081 board by any chance? I've seen some rather bad issues like this with those boards

roy

----- Original Message -----
> Indeed, right now zpool status -v is reporting only 1 unrecoverable
> error.
> However, other LUNs aren't recognized by VMWare as VMFS volumes
> anymore.
> 
> The server does have ECC memory, and an LSI SAS controller (no RAID,
> ZFS
> handles everything). We've had this in production for about 4 months
> without issue until yesterday. I agree about mirror-8; I'm concerned
> it may
> also have problems. I did online one drive in mirror-3. The other
> drive,
> wouldn't online.
> 
> At this point I want to get the two replacement drives I have
> installed,
> which goes back to one of my questions: what's the best method for
> replacement with hot spare already in place? I've seen other
> articles/posts
> about simply using zpool detach pool_name failed_device, but I want to
> make
> sure I get that part right and don't cause further problems. Once I
> know
> those are in place, I'm going to run a full scrub in the evening.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric Pierce
> 
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Lucas Van Tol <catseyev9 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think the re silver should have looked at all the data and given
> > you the
> > entire list of bad data, but I'm not entirely sure if re silvers
> > look
> > outside of the vdev they are fixing.
> > A scrub would look at all the data and verify it.
> >
> > I note that your drives are out due to too many errors.
> > Normally, I would say just replace them, but since you lost so many
> > at
> > once; it may be worth trying to force the drives online.
> > I don't know how that will interact with the spares, but if the
> > original
> > drives can be brought online and a scrub run; one of the two drives
> > may
> > still have the missing data; after which a scrub may recover it.
> > It would be a problem if the spare detached itself though, and I'm
> > not sure
> > how spares behave in such situations.
> >
> >
> > Also; mirror 8 has more 'read' errors than I would trust.
> > I find it suspicious that there are an equal #'s of failures on
> > disks in
> > that vdev.
> > Have you had any memory or disk controller issues on the system, and
> > are
> > you using ECC memory?
> >
> >
> >
> > -Lucas Van Tol
> >
> >
> >
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