> 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.

If the metadata is corrupt, how is ZFS going to find the data blocks on
disk?

> >  I don't believe it was a real disk read error because of the
> >  absence of evidence in /var/adm/messages.

It's not safe to jump to this conclusion.  Disk drivers that support FMA
won't log error messages to /var/adm/messages.  As more support for I/O
FMA shows up, you won't see random spew in the messages file any more.

-j
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