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Date:      Mon, 25 May 2009 10:23:30 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS panic under extreme circumstances (2/3 disks corrupted)
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90905251023m2ce92bcdh4cd3e9df67b83dfd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D98FEABB-8B8A-48E6-B021-B05816B4C699@exscape.org>
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> I'm guessing this is the case in OpenSolaris as well...? In any case, it's
> BAD. Unless you keep checking zpool status over and over, you could have a
> disk "failing silently" - which defeats one of the major purposes of ZFS!
> Sure, auto-healing is nice, but it should tell you that it's happening, so
> that you can prepare to replace a disk (i.e. order a new one BEFORE it
> crasches bigtime).
>
>

No, the FMA will persistently track issues like this.

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/fm/
-Kip



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