On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> additional comment below...
>
> Kyle Kakligian wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> that link suggests that this is a problem with a dirty export:
>>>
>>
>> Yes, a loss of power should mean there was no clean export.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> maybe try importing on system A again, doing a 'zpool export', waiting
>>> for completion, then moving to system B to import?
>>>
>>
>> I tried that first, but system A will have none of it. It fails with
>> the "cannot import 'pool0': invalid vdev configuration" error just
>> like system B above.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Victor Latushkin
>> <victor.latush...@sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What OpenSolaris build are you running?
>>>
>>
>> snv_101b
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Victor Latushkin
>> <victor.latush...@sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Could you please provide output of the following commands:
>>> zdb -u pool0
>>> zdb -bcsv pool0
>>>
>>> Add '-e' if you are running it on your test system.
>>>
>>
>> In both cases, the output is "zdb: can't open pool0: Invalid argument"
>>
>
> I've been meaning to do add some basic "can't import the pool"
> troubleshooting
> tips to the ZFS Troubleshooting Guide, but am a little bit behind right now.
> For reference, the guide is at:
> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide
>
> If the pool cannot be imported, then trying to run "zdb [options] poolname"
> may (will?) not work. A good first step to troubleshoot this to ensure that
> all of the labels can be read from each vdev. As a reminder, there are 4
> labels per vdev. To read them, try
> zdb -l /dev/rdsk/<vdev>
> where <vdev> is the physical device name, usually something like c0t0d0s0.
> If you cannot read all 4 labels from all of the vdevs, then you should try
> to
> solve that problem first, before moving onto further troubleshooting.
> -- richard
>
>
I will look into that doc, as it appears that my label2 and label3
guys are not parse-able.
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