I have a raidz1 that I have been trying to recover. I am missing one disk due to catastrophic mechanical failure, but the other disks are fully functional. The problem is that I cannot import the zpool, despite all the disks being present. Even with -f, zfs recovery mode set in the kernel options, etc.
The problem is that ZFS thinks devices are constantly missing, when they are not. The confusing part is that some of the disks have the ZFS data directly on the disk, and others are formatted with the ZFS data on a partition of the disk. In those cases, the partition is essentially the size of the full disk. I have even manually read through the start of each disk to view the actual partition map. Some of the disks are partitioned, while others are not. I cannot figure out how this would have happened, but I am wondering if it's something that could have been caused by a BIOS problem on the system that built the zpool. That system is not available to me, however. I do not know the exact history of this zpool, but I know it was created by a basic user and there's no way that he would have intentionally Does anybody have any ideas here on how I could recover this zpool? -Galen _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
