Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:36 PM, CJ Keist <cj.ke...@colostate.edu> wrote: > On 7/8/13 11:49 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: >> >> Do you know what zpool version is on there? If it's zpool 28 (i.e. >> without feature flags), you could try any of a number of other OSes to >> see if they are able to not crash when importing, and then do a clean >> export. You may need to go back a few transactions (using zpool import >> -F). > > Thank you. It is ver 28 ZFS. this is a supermicro chasis with 36 interal > drives so i cannot move another system to mount the zfs pools. I could try > install OpenSolaris or illuminos? Is there a preference.
You have many options, and I'm probably not the best person to offer a technical answer. My personal opinion would be to try this order: 1) current Illumos build [1] (maybe bug recently fixed) 2) OpenSolaris (maybe bug introduced recently) 3) FreeBSD 8.x or 9.x (maybe bug specific to Solaris-based implementations) 4) GNU/Linux with ZFSonLinux [2] (independent implementation) 5) current non-free Solaris (maybe Oracle fixed something) I don't know which distributions of Illumos have the most recent version from upstream, but some people report success using the "hipster repo" on OpenIndiana [3]. I haven't tried it myself, so can't personally vouch for its safety/stability. In most other cases you don't need to install the OS and could try to do it from a live session (i.e. quit the installer and drop to terminal). [1] http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions [2] http://zfsonlinux.org/ [3] http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2013-May/002109.html Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
