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Asked: 2013-11-23 18:05:34 +0800 CST

How to make Solaris rescan disk info after hotswap?

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I'm running a SmartOS-based ZFS NAS, with a bunch of SATA disks directly connected to the logic board (no fancy disk controller / backplane or anything).

A 1.5 TB disk in my zpool recently failed. iostat says:

# iostat -En c2t5d0
c2t5d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 8 Transport Errors: 21 
Vendor: ATA      Product: ST31500341AS     Revision: SD17 Serial No: [...]
Size: 1500.30GB <1500301910016 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 
Illegal Request: 89040 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

I hotswapped the disk with a new 2.0 TB disk, yet iostat still says the same thing — Size: 1500.30GB.

How can I tell the system to rescan the disk so it identifies the correct disk size? (I'd like it to probe the correct size so I can eventually expand my zpool.)

Already tried

  1. devfsadm -c disk as suggested on a similar question — no effect.
  2. cfgadm -c configure sata0/5::dsk/c2t5d0 — it just says Device already configured; no effect.
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1 Answers

  1. You need to first initiate devfsadm cleanup subroutines.

    # devfsadm -C -c disk -v

    Then, configure and create device path

    # devfsadm -c disk -v

    If that is unsuccessful, then...

    Remove the disk.

    # cfgadm -c unconfigure sata0/5::dsk/c2t5d0

    Initiate devfsadm cleanup subroutines.

    # devfsadm -C -c disk -v

    Verify the disk has been removed.

    # cfgadm -al
# ls -ld /dev/dsk/c2t5d0*

    Configure and create device paths

    # devfsadm -c -v
# cfgadm -c configure sata0/5::dsk/c2t5d0

    Verify the disk 

    # cfgadm -al
# ls -ld /dev/dsk/c2t5d0*
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