[OpenIndiana-discuss] The ZFS Pool died when unmirrored CACHE Device is removed ...

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 01/28/2013 02:31 PM, Shvayakov A. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a ZFS Storage Pool with Cache and ZIL Devices on SSD.
> During the performance test I removed the Cache  Device to simulate failure.
> 
> Now I can't get an output from the commands "zpool status", "format" etc.
> This commands hangs.
> Is this normal?

No.

> Sometimes a system reboot is strongly unacceptable
> How to restore the system from this state without rebooting?

You'll need to give some more info to diagnose the issue. What do
"dmesg" and "fmdump -e" say?

Cheers,
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Saso