[OmniOS-discuss] r151014 users - beware of illumos 6214 and L2ARC

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Fri Sep 11 03:25:57 UTC 2015


Run zdb(1M) on your pool. If that doesn't trip, that's better.

Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

On Sep 10, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

>> From: Dan McDonald
>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:32 PM
>> 
>> I'm not sure about latent corruption.  I do know that the worst-case
> corruption
>> won't be caught by zpool scrub because the corrupt data checksums nicely.
> 
> Blerg 8-/. So any pool running an illumos version with this bug and cache
> devices might have an undetectable timebomb hiding somewhere that could
> cause a failure at some later point? That's a bit disturbing <sigh>. Maybe
> I'll ask on the zfs list and see if they know of any way to check whether a
> given pool was hit.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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