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Date:      Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:10:40 -0600
From:      "Jason J. W. Williams" <jasonjwwilliams@gmail.com>
To:        Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS Cache & Log Device Failure Handling
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Hi Olivier,

Removal came around 18, but at least in OpenSolaris failure of the
device (and it's replacement) were handled from day one of the
dedicated ZIL feature.

-J

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> wrote:
> 2010/9/3 Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>:
>> Quoting "Jason J. W. Williams" <jasonjwwilliams@gmail.com> (from Thu, 2 =
Sep
>> 2010 13:30:51 -0600):
>>
>>> How well does ZFS on FreeBSD handle a dying/wedged log and/or cache
>>> device? OpenSolaris handles this pretty well in my experience and will
>>> fail through relatively quickly. But this tends to rely on FMA. Thank
>>> you in advance.
>>
>> No problem for the cache device. I have an USB memory stick as a cache
>> device, and if I just remove it during operation, the system handles the
>> situation. If you connect it again, you need to remove/readd it via zfs
>> commands.
>
> I've got the same setup and just have to "online" the usb key after boot.
>
> As for the zil/log device, I think it should be supported in the
> upcoming ZFS v28 patch (maybe you can give it a try, see pjd's mail)
> because zil removal was introduced in a zpool version after v14/15
> (what's in 8-STABLE and 9-CURRENT).
>
>>
>> I do not use a log device.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>>
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