Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:51:22 -0800 From: Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@gmail.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tommi_L=E4tti?= <sty@iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slight zfs problem after playing with WDIDLE3 and WDTLER Message-ID: <A53B5E42-D862-4BF8-A059-0901F0FA37AB@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f43ef3191001252149l39d68ac1gab575cf91b68850e@mail.gmail.com> References: <f43ef3191001251043n3a2d2780jfb2aa24be5f5371d@mail.gmail.com> <3F785019-DB0E-4385-97EB-7CE69A11647A@gmail.com> <f43ef3191001252007j4fb54a96l843f4515ad87bedd@mail.gmail.com> <02786740-7076-4C92-89EE-E1EFC2120E33@gmail.com> <f43ef3191001252149l39d68ac1gab575cf91b68850e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Tommi L=E4tti wrote: >> I poked through the code - the problem is that ZFS identifies the = drive >> as valid (due to correct metadata+checksums) and then tries to = assemble the >> array. At some point it checks the size, realizes that the drive is = smaller, >> and rejects the entire array. It isn't smart enough (yet?) to = realize that >> only rejecting the one drive would allow it to be only degraded... >=20 > A nice feature indeed. So I would have been screwed anyway. >=20 > Currently installing opensol on a spare hard-drive for the evening's > recovery attempts. I wonder if the newest opensol dev version is the > way to go (has way newer zfs version, maybe more... options). >=20 > Any hints to offer for the procedure? Just force import the pool and > hope the best? >=20 I used a usb stick from genunix.org, although to install the damn thing = to a USB drive I had to get a solaris VM running to use the usbcopy tool. It was = a fairly recent dev build, but I'd guess the last release might do okay = too... Other than that, it all worked as expected. No particular hangups. Just the usual fifteen minutes of shock at what a wasteland the Solaris userland is... (so many PATH entries! so confusing!)
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