[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

[Reginald Beardsley]

I'm referencing a rather different situation.    Dropping power to a drive while you're writing to it is quite different from breaking a mirror and moving the disk to another machine.  I've done this a couple of times, once because the wall wart was on the wall rather than on a power strip and got bumped.  This time it was on a power strip that was hard to access and even harder to see what I was doing.  So I unplugged the wrong one.

I've not had a problem dropping power to the system when it wedges, but I have long standing nervousness about forcing systems down in that fashion.  So a cleaner solution would be nice.
First priority of course is to not pull the USB power until after the pool has been exported ;-)

I'd be quite interested in how you handled the device naming problem.  I beat myself silly a couple of years ago trying to find a clean way to replicate a zfs pool based system image.  In the end I gave up and just did manual installs.


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On Fri, 3/28/14, Michael Stapleton <michael.stapleton at techsologic.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?
 To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
 Date: Friday, March 28, 2014, 10:04 AM
 
 I'm not sure when things changed, but
 way back in the OpenSolaris days,
 I had the root drive in my laptop mirrored to an external
 USB drive.
 I never had problems back then. I would do a demonstration
 where I would
 remove the USB drive while the laptop was up and running,
 and then plug
 the USB submirror into another laptop and boot from it.
 Never had a problem. I could even reattach the USB drive to
 my laptop
 and it would resilver automatically. 
 
 Is the problem ZFS or USB or FMA? no idea. But the was a
 regression of
 sorts.
 I don't think Solaris11 suffers from this.
 
 
 Mike