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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:48:12 -0500
From:      Jeremy Thornhill <jeremy.thornhill@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Subject:   Re: "corrupt or invalid GPT" when attempting to import Solaris ZFS  pool (8.0-RC3)
Message-ID:  <b77635950911170948q467f9cfcv95dd088832924387@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1258478987.2303.62.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
References:  <b77635950911162010t511ca570v32880acb5e3e25a3@mail.gmail.com> <1DE2E5E5-B6A4-4870-A346-ABC1CD20EE34@lassitu.de> <b77635950911170454w78ffae07t12ef27c1634ccbe9@mail.gmail.com> <1258478987.2303.62.camel@balrog.2hip.net>

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote

> This should be fixed in -CURRENT.  The issue seems to be that solaris
> claims that the GPT header is 512 bytes, where we expected it to always
> be 92 bytes.  The fixes are slated to merge to 7/8 stable within a few
> days, however they won't make it into 8.0.

Great news, thanks!

> Sigh, yes... you have now trashed you primary gpt table. =A0PLEASE do not
> go using dd to write stuff to your disks unless you a) know what your
> doing or b) don't care if you trash your disks...
>

Indeed, I did not really care much about this disk, it's only a
backup. I was using it as a dry run to see if I would encounter any
issues before moving the 'real' data, and it did this job admirably :)

> If is important... I can help you restore the primary header...

Thanks, the disk is just fine again. I managed to restore the backup
label using the Solaris system (after I RTFM'd on 'format').

Jeremy



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