Critical error! What to do next?

[MrToddsFriends]

I think everything is ok. And I can start the replacement part now. Right?

Looks fine, yes.

 

[JFD]

@danb35 thanks for the help. It just finished the resilvering. One last question, can I now use the wipe function to format the ada0 disk before sending it back to the vendor?

 

[danb35]

If you're concerned about the vendor reading data off the disk (which seems very unlikely), I'd do something a bit more destructive. A single write pass of badblocks would do the job.

 

[JFD]

If you're concerned about the vendor reading data off the disk (which seems very unlikely), I'd do something a bit more destructive. A single write pass of badblocks would do the job.

Don't know if I should be concerned or just return this 1 disk. The NAS holds all my personal stuff but could they reproduce files with 1 disk? Maybe a wipe is just enough?

 

[danb35]

I don't believe it'd be practical to recover any significant data off of a single disk in a RAIDZ vdev (even if they were to try, which itself seems unlikely), which is why I said I wouldn't bother in the first place. But if I were concerned about that, I wouldn't rely on the Wipe Disk feature--IIRC, all that does is wipe the partition table without touching the data on the disk.

 

[JFD]

thank you, thank you all. My FreeNAS is up and running again. I removed the disk with the error and the fresh disk is installed.