On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:
> Well, I fixed the HW but I had one bad file, and the problem was that ZFS
Hi Elizabeth,
Followup: When you say you "fixed the HW", I'm curious as to what you
found and if this experience with ZFS convinced you that your trusted RAID
H/W did, in fact, have issues?
Do you think that it's likely that there are others running production
systems on RAID systems that they trust, but don't realize may have bugs
(causing data corruption) that have yet to be discovered?
> was saying "delete the pool and restore from tape" when, it turns out, the
> answer is just find the file with the bad inode, delete it, clear the device
> and scrub. Maybe more of a documentation problme, but it sure is
> disconcerting to have a file system threatening to give up the game over one
> bad file (and the real irony: it was a file in someone's TRASH!)
>
> Anyway I'm back in business without a restore (and with a rebuilt RAID) but
> yeesh, it sure took a lot of escalating to get to the point where someone
> knew to tell me to do a find -inum.
>
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