On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 04:07:34PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
I read this as "it didn't email me about its degraded state, so if it was racked, I'd never have known until it was too late" :-)
Did it log the change of state?
unfortunately, no. can't see any specific zfs error message in my kern.log, just the usual kernel scsi/sata/sd retry errors. IMO, that's a problem. hopefully will get fixed in a future release. at minimum, it should log a degraded event in the zpool history - it has logged the 'zpool replace ...' command there.
Zfs is excellent - now if only Oracle would release it under a GPL2-compatible license...
can't see that happening. it is, however, open source - just not GPL so can't be distributed with the kernel. fortunately, there's no impediment to compiling and installing the module yourself, or even having a dkms package to automate the process. some distros (gentoo and arch iirc) even distribute binary modules - i'm not convinced that that is entirely safe for them to do, but it's their necks on the line, not mine. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>