107: Which Drive Is It?
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“ZFS reports that one of the seventy-nine drives in our array is failing? Great! We can replace it in a convenient maintenance window before it causes problems. Uh… which drive is it?”
If you have a large storage array, you need proper physical and logical labeling. Keep a spreadsheet of each drive’s physical location and the information presented to the operating system, and also document this within ZFS itself. It’s easier than it sounds. Proper preparations during installation let you zero right in on a failed disk—even a disk at a remote facility. Jude runs a…
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