My ZFS RAID array is resilvering. It’s a long recovery process. A report on progress looks like this:

Every 10.0s: zpool status                                             love: Tue May  4 22:32:27 2021

  pool: data
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered.  The pool will
        continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
  scan: resilver in progress since Sun May  2 20:26:52 2021
        1.89T scanned out of 5.03T at 11.0M/s, 83h19m to go
        967G resilvered, 37.54% done
config:

        NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        data                       DEGRADED     0     0     0
          mirror-0                 ONLINE       0     0     0
            sda                    ONLINE       0     0     0
            sdb                    ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-1                 DEGRADED     0     0     0
            replacing-0            DEGRADED     0     0     0
              4616223910663615641  UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was /dev/sdc1/old
              sdc                  ONLINE       0     0     0  (resilvering)
            sdd                    ONLINE       0     0     0
        cache
          nvme0n1p4                ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

So that 83h19m to go wasn’t in units I could easily grok, what I wanted to know was how many days. Lucky for me, I’m a computer programmer!

First I wrote watch-zpool-status.php:

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

main( $argv );

function main( $argv ) {

  $status = fread( STDIN, 999999 );

  if ( ! preg_match( '/, (\d+)h(\d+)m to go/', $status, $matches ) ) {

    die( "could not read zpool status.\n" );

  }

  $hours = intval( $matches[ 1 ] );
  $minutes = intval( $matches[ 2 ] );

  $minutes += $hours * 60;

  $days = $minutes / 60.0 / 24.0;

  $report = number_format( $days, 2 );

  echo "days remaining: $report\n";

}

And then I wrote watch-zpool-status.sh to run it:

#!/bin/bash

watch -n 10 'zpool status | ./watch-zpool-status.php'

So now it reports that there are 3.47 days remaining, good to know!