ZFS: How can I stop a zpool replace that's currently in progress?

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A few days ago, I noticed that the ZFS pool on my home server had started reslivering a disk by itself but was no longer making any progress. The disk had some SMART errors (but did not consider itself failed), so I decided to replace it with a spare. I did that, but my spare disk is now generating a large number of DMA_WRITE errors, and the reslivering from the replace is restarting once it gets to 10% or so.

I now want to temporarily replace both the original disk and the spare disk with a USB disk. I've stopped the resliver with "zpool scrub -s tank". However, both the disks are still listed as "replacing" and won't allow another replace, and I can't seem to get them out of that state.

How can I stop/cancel a zpool replace before it's completed?

I am using FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with a 5-disk RAIDZ array.

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 17:09

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So, I just recently had an issue where I was replacing a drive, and as soon as reslivering started, the new drive bombed out.

I yanked and replaced w/ the previous drive (still worked, just was increasing capacity), but still had the "replacing" bits when I ran zpool status.

Here's what got me back to normal:

zpool detach mypoolname /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_XYZ

All seems well now.

answered Jun 22 '12 at 17:09

Bret McMillan

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I had the same "replacing bits" in zpool status. I did a `zpool detach /dev/ada0` (since the message was "was /dev/ada0") and everything went fine. – JB. Mar 19 '13 at 20:41
it´s old thread, but work! Many Thanks! – don.redhorse Oct 24 '19 at 18:10
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Are you detaching the (previously) new disk? – Dan Bolser Jan 15 '21 at 15:21
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was SATA-XYZ the old drive, or the replacement? This is NOT clear in the answer. – Brian Thomas Dec 09 '21 at 19:15

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 30 '18 at 19:39

I just did a detach like this and it worked !

zpool detach storage c9t24d1

And c9t24d1 was a hot spare that I just add to one of my mirror because I tough we had no drive available to replace a failed one.

After putting a new drive in my spool before the hot spare finish resilvering, I just detach my spare to stop the silvering process and it work.

After that I replace my bad drive with the new one. For us one silvering process is the max that we can have in our pool of 24 drives. With 2 silvering process happening simultaneously its hurting to much our users.

Hope this can help others in the same situation.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '11 at 17:19

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According the docs:

An in-progress spare replacement can be cancelled by detaching the hot spare.

It sounds like you did a manual replace but detching the new disk might work the same.

answered Mar 01 '11 at 17:19

JOTN

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I did do a manual replace. I've tried removing the spare (it's not a hot spare), and it remained in replace mode. – Kaypro II Mar 01 '11 at 19:01

ZFS: How can I stop a zpool replace that's currently in progress?

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