zpool failmode property [PSARC/2007/567 FastTrack timeout 10/08/2007]

[George Wilson]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Mark Maybee wrote:
>>         wait     Block all I/O access until the device connectivity
>>             is recovered and the errors are cleared. This is the
>>             default behavior.
> 
> It isn't clear from the case material but I assume that reads that can 
> be satisfied from the cache (ARC) will succeed regardless of the setting 
> of failmode.  Is that correct ?
> 
> 

Darren,

That's correct, the blocking behavior occurs when we need to issue an 
I/O to the disk.

Thanks,
George