Just to clarify this post. This isn't data I care about recovering.
I'm just interested in understanding how zfs determined there was data
corruption when I have checksums disabled and there were no
non-retryable read errors reported in the messages file.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Victor Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks! That would explain things. I don't believe it was a real disk
>  read error because of the absence of evidence in /var/adm/messages.
>
>  I'll review the man page and documentation to confirm that metadata is
>  checksummed.
>
>  Regards,
>  Vic
>
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Nathan Kroenert
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > I'm just taking a stab here, so could be completely wrong, but IIRC, even 
> if
>  > you disable checksum, it still checksums the metadata...
>  >
>  >  So, it could be metadata checksum errors.
>  >
>  >  Others on the list might have some funky zdb thingies you could to see 
> what
>  > it actually is...
>  >
>  >  Note: typed pre caffeine... :)
>  >
>  >  Nathan
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Vic Engle wrote:
>  >
>  > > I'm hoping someone can help me understand a zfs data corruption symptom.
>  > We have a zpool with checksum turned off. Zpool status shows that data
>  > corruption occured. The application using the pool at the time reported a
>  > "read" error and zoppl status (see below) shows 2 read errors on a device.
>  > The thing that is confusing to me is how ZFS determines that data 
> corruption
>  > exists when reading data from a pool with checkdum turned off.
>  > >
>  > > Also, I'm wondering about the persistent errors in the output below. 
> Since
>  > no specific file or directory is mentioned does this indicate pool metadata
>  > is corrupt?
>  > >
>  > > Thanks for any help interpreting the output...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > # zpool status -xv
>  > >  pool: zpool1
>  > >  state: ONLINE
>  > > status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
>  > >        corruption.  Applications may be affected.
>  > > action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
>  > >        entire pool from backup.
>  > >   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
>  > >  scrub: none requested
>  > > config:
>  > >
>  > >        NAME                                     STATE     READ WRITE 
> CKSUM
>  > >        zpool1                                   ONLINE       2     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D48446Fd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484352d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484236d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D482D6Cd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483951d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483836d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D48366Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483551d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483435d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D48326Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483150d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D483035d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D47796Ad0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D477850d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D477734d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D47756Ad0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D47744Fd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D477333d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D477169d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D47704Ed0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D476F33d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D476D68d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D476C4Ed0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D476B32d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D476968d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A98000433468656834476B2D453974d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A98000433468656834476B2D454142d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A98000433468656834476B2D454255d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A98000433468656834476B2D45436Dd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D487346d0  ONLINE       2     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D487175d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D48705Ad0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486F45d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486D74d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486C5Ad0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486B44d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486974d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486859d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486744d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486573d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486459d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486343d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D486173d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D482F58d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485A43d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485872d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485758d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485642d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485471d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485357d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485241d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D485071d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484F56d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484E41d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484C70d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484B56d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484A2Dd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484870d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D484755d0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >          c4t60A9800043346859444A476B2D48462Dd0  ONLINE       0     0     > 0
>  > >
>  > > errors: The following persistent errors have been detected:
>  > >
>  > >          DATASET  OBJECT  RANGE
>  > >          zpool1   17      2428895232-2429026304
>  > >          zpool1   17      2429026304-2429157376
>  > >          zpool1   17      2429157376-2429288448
>  > >          zpool1   17      2429288448-2429419520
>  > >          zpool1   17      2429419520-2429550592
>  > >          zpool1   17      2463629312-2463760384
>  > >          zpool1   17      2463760384-2463891456
>  > >          zpool1   17      2463891456-2464022528
>  > >          zpool1   17      2464022528-2464153600
>  > >          zpool1   17      2464153600-2464284672
>  > >          zpool1   18      2397700096-2397831168
>  > >          zpool1   18      2397831168-2397962240
>  > >          zpool1   18      2397962240-2398093312
>  > >          zpool1   18      2398093312-2398224384
>  > >          zpool1   18      2398224384-2398355456
>  > >          zpool1   18      2432434176-2432565248
>  > >          zpool1   18      2432565248-2432696320
>  > >          zpool1   18      2432696320-2432827392
>  > >          zpool1   18      2432827392-2432958464
>  > >          zpool1   18      2432958464-2433089536
>  > >          zpool1   19      2418933760-2419064832
>  > >          zpool1   19      2419064832-2419195904
>  > >          zpool1   19      2419195904-2419326976
>  > >          zpool1   19      2419326976-2419458048
>  > >          zpool1   19      2453798912-2453929984
>  > >          zpool1   19      2453929984-2454061056
>  > >          zpool1   19      2454061056-2454192128
>  > >          zpool1   19      2454192128-2454323200
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