Re: [zfs-discuss] Postmortem - file system recovered [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-08-30 Thread Brian
I am afraid I can't describe the exact procedure that eventually fixed the file system as I merely observed it while Victor was logged into my system. I am quoting from the explanation he provided but if he reads this perhaps he could add whatever details seem pertinent. -- This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Postmortem - file system recovered [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-08-29 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 08:09:22PM -0700, Brian wrote: >The fix: >"""the trick was to modify mode in in-kernel buffer containing znode_phys_t and then force ZFS to flush it out to disk.""" Can you give an example of how you did this ? -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the pr

[zfs-discuss] Postmortem - file system recovered

2010-08-29 Thread Brian
I am writing to follow-up my post regarding a file system that became inaccessible despite a clean pool: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=494651 Several people helped but Victor Latushkin was instrumental in diagnosing/fixing the issue. Background: The file system became inacc