Lelsie Rhorer wrote:
I would try to first run hardware diagnostics. Maybe you will get
"lucky" and one or more disks will fail diagnostics, which at least
means it will be easy to repair the problem.
This could very well be situation where you have a lot of bad blocks
that have to get restriped, and parity has to be regenerated. Are
these the cheap consumer SATA disk drives, or enterprise class disks?
I don't buy that for a second. First of all, restriping parity can and does
occur in the background. Secondly, how is it the system writes many
terrabytes of data post file creation, then chokes on a 0 byte file?
You should note that the drive won't know a sector it just wrote is
bad until it reads it....are you sure you actually successfully wrote
all of that data and that it is still there?
And it is not the writes that kill when you have a drive going bad, it
is the reads of the bad sectors. And to create a file, a number of
things will likely need to be read to finish the file creation, and if
one of those is a bad sector things get ugly.
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