This post has been replaced by a newer post. For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B This is the previous post for this system configuration. Photos of the assembly. File systems Paritions zpools Those […]
I rebooted knew yesterday for upgrades. When it came back, the main storage zpool was degraded: Is the drive alive? The drive is not listed at all in /var/run/dmesg.boot. I keep a list of the expected drives in /etc/periodic.conf, for use by a Nagios check: [dan@knew:~] $ /usr/sbin/sysrc -nf /etc/periodic.conf daily_status_smart_devices /dev/da22 /dev/da21 /dev/da20 /dev/da19 /dev/da18 /dev/da17 /dev/da16 /dev/da15 /dev/da14 /dev/da13 /dev/da12 /dev/da11 /dev/da10 /dev/da9 /dev/da8 /dev/da7 /dev/da6 /dev/da5 /dev/da4 /dev/da3 /dev/da2 /dev/da1
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When the time comes to replace a drive, it is very nice to know which drives is missing. I created this drive map to help me figure out which drive disappeared. I created this drive-bay map using a combination of: zpool status sesutil map lsblk camcontrol /var/run/dmesg.boot I have not included /var/run/dmesg.boot here. If you click on this image, you’ll see a larger version which is easier to read. I went through sesutil
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