zfs raidz – replacing a drive

So I had a faulty drive in a zfs raidz configuration. I replaced the drive without setting the faulty drive to offline, or detaching it from the current raidz configuration … I probably did that part wrong. After reboot I had something like this:

root@backupmh:~# zpool status
  pool: tank
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be opened.  Sufficient replicas exist for
	the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state.
action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q
 scan: none requested
config:

	NAME                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	tank                     DEGRADED     0     0     0
	  raidz1-0               ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da1                  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da13                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da25                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da37                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da49                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	  raidz1-1               DEGRADED     0     0     0
	    da73                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da85                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da97                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da109                ONLINE       0     0     0
	    9120273794345838000  UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was /dev/da121
	spares
	  da61                   AVAIL   
	  da133                  AVAIL   

errors: No known data errors
root@backupmh:~# ls -l /dev/da121
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    1, 100 14 mar 11:59 /dev/da121

It’s /dev/da121 that I replaced. First I smply wannted to hot-swap the drive, but since this is a really old HP MSA-20 or something, and I’m using som super crap’y cheap sata drives I had to reboot and some other stuff until the raid controller wanted to recognize the drive …
Anyway, to get zfs to rebuild ( or resilver, as zfs calls it) I ended up with:

root@backupmh:~# zpool offline tank /dev/da121
root@backupmh:~# zpool online tank /dev/da121
warning: device '/dev/da121' onlined, but remains in faulted state
use 'zpool replace' to replace devices that are no longer present
root@backupmh:~# zpool replace tank /dev/da121

After that I got :

root@backupmh:~# zpool status
  pool: tank
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered.  The pool will
	continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
 scan: resilver in progress since Thu Mar 14 12:14:51 2013
    6.46G scanned out of 1.36T at 4.60M/s, 85h38m to go
    685M resilvered, 0.46% done
config:

	NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
	tank                       DEGRADED     0     0     0
	  raidz1-0                 ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da1                    ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da13                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da25                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da37                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da49                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	  raidz1-1                 DEGRADED     0     0     0
	    da73                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da85                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da97                   ONLINE       0     0     0
	    da109                  ONLINE       0     0     0
	    replacing-4            UNAVAIL      0     0     0
	      9120273794345838000  UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was /dev/da121/old
	      da121                ONLINE       0     0     0  (resilvering)
	spares
	  da61                     AVAIL   
	  da133                    AVAIL   

errors: No known data errors

the resilver progress look slow … but it’s getting faster and faster every time I check it (started at an estimate of +600 hours) .
I initially setup the 2 raidz configurations with a hot-spare, I wonder why it didn’t start resilvering to the corresponding hot-spare after reboot (?) .
I should check that out, some day …

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