I have observed the same SATA hard disk error wait behavior over many operating systems. It's a SATA hardware issue. I have even observed it on expensive high end storage servers. (HP, IBM, etc.) The SATA disk or subsystem is trying to correct/recover errors, it should not and just return the fault back to the caller (ZFS in this case). It can handle the issue much more diplomatically and will correct the data fault immediately. Don't blame ZFS, it is well designed, SATA on the other hand is trying hard to do a bad thing.
-----Original Message----- From: michelle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:31 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed I did a hard reset and moved the drive to another channel. The fault followed the drive so I'm certain it is the drive, as people have said. The thing that bugs me is that this ZFS fault locked up the OS - and that's a real concern. I think I'm going to need to have a hard think about my options and possibly leave OI for FreeNAS, Nexenta or Schillix. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
