Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
On May 25, 2010, at 12:33 PM, R. Eulenberg wrote: >> a manual recovery of missing top-level vdevs >> -- a rare event. > Yes, but so rare that I never thought troubling me. In my mind it was only > the slog and loosing the last few seconds doesn't wrong. So I don't have a > backup, a snapshot nei

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-25 Thread R. Eulenberg
> a manual recovery of missing top-level vdevs > -- a rare event. Yes, but so rare that I never thought troubling me. In my mind it was only the slog and loosing the last few seconds doesn't wrong. So I don't have a backup, a snapshot neither the original zpool.cache file. Is there any solution f

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
On May 25, 2010, at 7:46 AM, thomas wrote: > Is there a best practice on keeping a backup of the zpool.cache file? Same as anything else, but a little bit easier because you can snapshot the root pool. Thus far, the only real use for the backups is for a manual recovery of missing top-level vdev

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-25 Thread thomas
Is there a best practice on keeping a backup of the zpool.cache file? Is it possible? Does it change with changes to vdevs? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-24 Thread R. Eulenberg
I even have this problem on my (productive) backup server. I lost my system-hdd and my separate ZIL-device while the system crashes and now I'm in trouble. The old system was running under the least version of osol/dev with zfs v22. 10 days ago after the servers crashs I was very optimistc of so

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-17 Thread Geoff Nordli
>-Original Message- >From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:solar...@nedharvey.com] >Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:29 AM >> >> I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove >> it before I shut down the server. Now I am not able to mount the >> pool. I am not concerned wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-17 Thread Victor Latushkin
On May 17, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli >> >> I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove it >> before I shut down the server. Now I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Nordli > > I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove it > before I shut down the server. Now I am not able to mount the pool. I > am > not concerned with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Skelton
Hi Geoff, I also tested a ram disk as a zil and found I could recover the pool:- ramdiskadm -a zil 1g zpool create -f tank c1t3d0 c1t4d0 log /dev/ramdisk/zil zpool status tank reboot zpool status tank ramdiskadm -a zil 1g zpool replace -f tank /dev/ramdisk/zil zpool status tank Cheers Richard.

[zfs-discuss] can you recover a pool if you lose the zil (b134+)

2010-05-16 Thread Geoff Nordli
I was messing around with a ramdisk on a pool and I forgot to remove it before I shut down the server. Now I am not able to mount the pool. I am not concerned with the data in this pool, but I would like to try to figure out how to recover it. I am running Nexenta 3.0 NCP (b134+). I have trie