On Jun 12, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Jan Hellevik wrote: > Hi! Sorry for the late reply - I have been busy at work and this had to wait. > The system has been powered off since my last post. > > The computer is new - built it to use as file server at home. I have not seen > any strange behaviour (other than this). All parts are brand new (except for > the disks). > > I did not do an export when I moved the test pool - I did everything exactly > as I did when I had the incident. The only difference is that I used a HDD > instead of a SSD as I didn't have an available SSD to use for the log/cache. > > I am not sure how to dd zero wipe the disks, but I can give it a try. I'll > google for the syntax. > > Is there anything else I can do to get my pool back? It seems strange to me > that merely moving the disks will render it useless. I have not written > anything to the disks, so all the data is there - is there no way to retrieve > the files?
You used the fdisk partitions instead of a slice. If you export the pool, then the hint to look for fdisk partitions instead of a slice is lost (cleared from the zpool.cache file). If you search the forum archives, you'll find similar situations such as: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=461199 Cindy, let's write something up for the ZFS Troubleshooting Guide :-) -- richard -- ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
