Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-06 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Osvald, If you physically replaced the failed disk with even a slightly smaller disk in a RAIDZ pool and ran the zpool replace command, you would have seen a message similar to the following: # zpool replace rescamp c0t6d0 c2t2d0 cannot replace c0t6d0 with c2t2d0: device is too small Did y

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-06 Thread Nigel Smith
Hi Cindy Please note the thread from last year, where Eugene Gladchenko discovered that a motherboard BIOS upgrade had suddenly enabled 'Host protected Area' (HPA) on his hard drives, causing them to shrink in size by 2MB! You can find the thread at these urls: http://markmail.org/message/j7av5b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-06 Thread Osvald Ivarsson
> Hi Osvald, > > Can you comment on how the disks shrank or how the > labeling on these > disks changed? > > We would like to track the issues that causes the > hardware underneath > a live pool to change so that we can figure out how > to prevent pool > failures in the future. > > Thanks, > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-05 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Osvald, Can you comment on how the disks shrank or how the labeling on these disks changed? We would like to track the issues that causes the hardware underneath a live pool to change so that we can figure out how to prevent pool failures in the future. Thanks, Cindy On 10/03/09 09:46, Osv

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-03 Thread Osvald Ivarsson
I managed to solve this problem thanks to much help from Victor Latushkin. Anyways, the problem is related to the following bug: Bug ID 6753869 Synopsislabeling/shrinking a disk in raid-z vdev makes pool un-importable http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-02 Thread Osvald Ivarsson
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: > Osvald Ivarsson wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Victor Latushkin >> wrote: >>> >>> Osvald Ivarsson wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: > > On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-02 Thread Osvald Ivarsson
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: > Osvald Ivarsson wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Victor Latushkin >> wrote: >>> >>> On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson wrote: I'm running OpenSolaris build svn_101b. I have 3 SATA disks connected to my motherboar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-02 Thread Osvald Ivarsson
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: > On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson wrote: >> >> I'm running OpenSolaris build svn_101b. I have 3 SATA disks connected to >> my motherboard. The raid, a raidz, which is called "rescamp", has worked >> good before until a power failure yester

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-02 Thread Victor Latushkin
Osvald Ivarsson wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: Osvald Ivarsson wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson wrote: I'm running OpenSolaris build svn_101b. I have 3 SATA disks connected to my motherboard. Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-02 Thread Victor Latushkin
Osvald Ivarsson wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Victor Latushkin wrote: On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson wrote: I'm running OpenSolaris build svn_101b. I have 3 SATA disks connected to my motherboard. The raid, a raidz, which is called "rescamp", has worked good before until a power f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to import pool: invalid vdev configuration

2009-10-01 Thread Victor Latushkin
On 01.10.09 17:54, Osvald Ivarsson wrote: I'm running OpenSolaris build svn_101b. I have 3 SATA disks connected to my motherboard. The raid, a raidz, which is called "rescamp", has worked good before until a power failure yesterday. I'm now unable to import the pool. I can't export the raid, s