Hi everyone, sorry for the late reply. First of all, I've got all my files back. Cheers! :-)
Next, I'd like to tnank Nigel Smith, you are the best! And, if anyone is interested, here is the end of the story and I'll try not to make it too long. As one can see at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128083 the size of /dev/ad4 was 476940MB before the trouble arose. And as Nigel said I really didn't notice the size had changed to 476938MB. 2MB got stolen. The one to blame was HPA, or Host Protected Area, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Protected_Area for details. A damned new motherboard BIOS silently cut 2 megabytes down from the drive so that ZFS went insane. All I had to do was to reset the HPA back to the native capacity and pray that BIOS did not overwrite any ZFS vital data. With the new 7200.11 Seagates the resetting procedure was a bit complicated because I had to power-cycle the drive while feeding it the new HPA setting. After making my data come back I made a copy of them, let the BIOS cut the drive again and re-created the pool with the new HDD size. That's all. Thank you all again. Take care. Eugene Gladchenko -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
