Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-13 Thread Cromar Scott
Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> "cs" == Cromar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cs> We opened a call with Sun support. We were told that the cs> corruption issue was due to a race condition within ZFS. We cs> were also told

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-13 Thread Cromar Scott
Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> "cs" == Cromar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cs> It appears that the metadata on that pool became corrupted cs> when the processor failed. The exact mechanism is a bit of a cs> mystery, [...]

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-12 Thread Cromar Scott
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cromar Scott wrote: > Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm not Anton Rang, but: > | How would you describe the difference between the data recovery > | utility and ZFS's normal data recovery process? > > cks&

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-12 Thread Cromar Scott
Chris Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not Anton Rang, but: | How would you describe the difference between the data recovery | utility and ZFS's normal data recovery process? cks> The data recovery utility should not panic cks> my entire system if it runs into some situation cks> that it ut

Re: [zfs-discuss] more ZFS recovery

2008-08-12 Thread Cromar Scott
From: Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Miles Nordin wrote: >> "re" == Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "tb" == Tom Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > ... > > re> In general, ZFS can only repair conditions for which it owns > re> data redundancy. tb