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DESCRIPTION

The following options are available:

-d

Run in the foreground instead of daemonizing.

System administrators never interact with zfsd directly. Instead, they control its behavior indirectly through zpool configuration. There are two ways to influence zfsd: assigning hotspares and setting pool properties. Currently, only the autoreplace property has any effect. See zpool(8) for details.

zfsd will attempt to resolve the following types of fault:

device removal

When a leaf vdev disappears, zfsd will activate any available hotspare.

device arrival

When a new GEOM device appears, zfsd will attempt to read its ZFS label, if any. If it matches a previously removed vdev on an active pool, zfsd will online it. Once resilvering completes, any active hotspare will detach automatically.

If the new device has no ZFS label but its physical path matches the physical path of a previously removed vdev on an active pool, and that pool has the autoreplace property set, then zfsd will replace the missing vdev with the newly arrived device. Once resilvering completes, any active hotspare will detach automatically.

vdev degrade or fault events

If a vdev becomes degraded or faulted, zfsd will activate any available hotspare.

I/O errors

If a leaf vdev generates more than 50 I/O errors in a 60 second period, then zfsd will mark that vdev as FAULTED. zfs(4) will no longer issue any I/Os to it. zfsd will activate a hotspare if one is available.

Checksum errors

If a leaf vdev generates more than 50 checksum errors in a 60 second period, then zfsd will mark that vdev as DEGRADED. zfs(4) will still use it, but zfsd will activate a spare anyway.

Spare addition

If the system administrator adds a hotspare to a pool that is already degraded, zfsd will activate the spare.

Resilver complete

zfsd will detach any hotspare once a permanent replacement finishes resilvering.

Physical path change

If the physical path of an existing disk changes, zfsd will attempt to replace any missing disk with the same physical path, if its pool's autoreplace property is set.

zfsd will log interesting events and its actions to syslog with facility daemon and identity [zfsd].