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Repairing a Damaged ZFS Device

Published 11 Mar 2006 Read time 8 min(s) 39 sec(s) (723 visits).

This article describes how to determine ZFS device failure types, clear transient errors, and replace a device.

Published 11 Mar 2006 Read time 2 min(s) 21 sec(s) (638 visits).

If a device cannot be opened, it displays as UNAVAILABLE in the zpool status output.

Updated 14 Apr 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 9 sec(s) (877 visits).

With ZFS filesystem, RAIDZ is very popular as it gives the best tradeoff of hardware failure protection versus storage.

Updated 29 Jul 2014 Read time 4 min(s) 26 sec(s) (2737 visits).

If you need to adjust the size of the swap volume after installation on an active system, review the following steps. See CR 6765386 for more info

Updated 21 Jul 2016 Read time 1 min 21 sec(s) (2474 visits).

Renaming a zpool is not as intuitive as I would expect, but it is still pretty simple. However, we can accomplish this through a three step process.

Published 13 Jun 2013 Read time 1 min 22 sec(s) (2477 visits).

This article describes available ZFS versions, features of each version, and the Solaris release that provides the ZFS version and feature

Published 18 Jan 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) (2596 visits).

Most ZFS errors I've experienced generally fall into one of three categories. missing devices, damaged devices and data corruption.

Published 18 Jan 2014 Read time 40 sec(s) (2455 visits).

Once the drive has been physically replaced, run the 'zfs replace' command against the device to allow it to be brought back online.

Published 18 Jan 2014 Read time 56 sec(s) (2540 visits).

ZFS is a transactional file system. For each write request, a copy is made of the specified block protected by Copy-On-Write (COW)

Published 17 Jan 2014 Read time 1 min 3 sec(s) (3276 visits).

In ZFS, I/Os are scheduled similarly to how jobs are scheduled on CPUs.

Published 18 Jan 2014 Read time 54 sec(s) (2559 visits).

When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.