I have a x4540 with a single pool made from a bunch of raidz1''s with 2 spares (solaris 10 u7). Been running great for over a year, but I''ve had my first event. A day ago the system activated one of the spares c4t7d0, but given the status below, I''m not sure what to do next. # zpool status pool: pool1 state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 2h25m with 0 errors on Mon Nov 22 14:25:12 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM pool1 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spare ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 .... c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c5t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 spares c4t7d0 INUSE currently in use c5t7d0 AVAIL am I supposed to do something with c1t3d0 now? Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2010-11-23 13:28:38, Tony Schreiner wrote: |> am I supposed to do something with c1t3d0 now?Presumably you want to replace the dead drive with one that works? zpool offline the dead drive, if it isn''t already, pull it, plug in the new one, do devfsadm -C, cfgadm -al, watch dmesg to see if the ctd changed, then use zpool replace deaddisk newdisk to get the pool proper again. Spares are .. spares. They''re there for events, not for running in production. The above process is documented more usefully in the ZFS Administration Guide. Cheers. -- bdha cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.