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| author | Tom Caputi <[email protected]> | 2018-10-19 00:06:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2018-10-18 21:06:18 -0700 |
| commit | 80a91e7469669e2a5da5873b8f09a752f7869062 (patch) | |
| tree | ef5a4462892becccb939b2cd42a54ed580f5894f /man/man5/zpool-features.5 | |
| parent | 9f438c5f948c0072f16431407a373ead34fabf6e (diff) | |
Defer new resilvers until the current one ends
Currently, if a resilver is triggered for any reason while an
existing one is running, zfs will immediately restart the existing
resilver from the beginning to include the new drive. This causes
problems for system administrators when a drive fails while another
is already resilvering. In this case, the optimal thing to do to
reduce risk of data loss is to wait for the current resilver to end
before immediately replacing the second failed drive, which allows
the system to operate with two incomplete drives for the minimum
amount of time.
This patch introduces the resilver_defer feature that essentially
does this for the admin without forcing them to wait and monitor
the resilver manually. The change requires an on-disk feature
since we must mark drives that are part of a deferred resilver in
the vdev config to ensure that we do not assume they are done
resilvering when an existing resilver completes.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Kennedy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: @mmaybee
Signed-off-by: Tom Caputi <[email protected]>
Closes #7732
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man5/zpool-features.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man5/zpool-features.5 | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/zpool-features.5 b/man/man5/zpool-features.5 index 5cc4db45e..c1f6ee6e4 100644 --- a/man/man5/zpool-features.5 +++ b/man/man5/zpool-features.5 @@ -757,6 +757,27 @@ The upgrade process runs in the background and may take a while to complete for the filesystems containing a large number of files. .RE +.sp +.ne 2 +.na +\fB\fBresilver_defer\fR\fR +.ad +.RS 4n +.TS +l l . +GUID com.datto:resilver_defer +READ\-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes +DEPENDENCIES none +.TE + +This feature allows zfs to postpone new resilvers if an existing one is already +in progress. Without this feature, any new resilvers will cause the currently +running one to be immediately restarted from the beginning. + +This feature becomes \fBactive\fR once a resilver has been defered, and returns +to being \fBenabled\fR when the defered resilver begins. + +.RE .sp .ne 2 |