[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

Ray Arachelian ray at arachelian.com
Mon Jun 25 21:06:07 UTC 2012


On 06/25/2012 03:31 PM, michelle wrote:
> I did a hard reset and moved the drive to another channel.
>
> The fault followed the drive so I'm certain it is the drive, as people
> have said.
>
> The thing that bugs me is that this ZFS fault locked up the OS - and
> that's a real concern.
>
> I think I'm going to need to have a hard think about my options and
> possibly leave OI for FreeNAS, Nexenta or Schillix.
>

My guess is that since all the pools are by default set to have failmode
set to "wait" on failure, it'll wait forever.

Now, changing it to "continue" which will return an error, but it could
lead to worse behavior in some cases.  (You could set it to panic also,
but you'll like that far less.)




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