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!