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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2018 14:00:43 +0200
From:      Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Getting ZFS pools back.
Message-ID:  <7c0b4478-ff87-0d70-d9ef-203122c2bc7f@digiware.nl>
In-Reply-To: <616ffef3-195b-47fa-fcc6-1ba9f5545bef@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2-5-2018 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 30/04/2018 13:37, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> So now I'm inclined to point at older hardware with an old bios, which confused
>> ZFS, or probably more precisely gptzfsboot.
> 
> I think that this alone wouldn't explain the problems you had with zpool import.
> Maybe you had multiple issues at the same time.
> - something with BIOS caused trouble with booting
> - something else, e.g. kernel-userland mismatch, caused zpool commands to misbehave

More than likely you are right.
Frustrating was, how ever, that most trouble I run into, I can fix. 
Doing FreeBSD for so long, makes that I don't easily give up.
But after 4 hours of fiddling with bootsectors, loaders, setting and 
what not, I gave up. Also because I did not want to jeopardize the data.
(It is on backup, but the backup was already 8 hours stale)

But hey, system is backup. And haven't heart anybody complaining about 
missing data, of other failures....

--WjW





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