Victor, The zpool import succeeded on the next attempt following the crash that I reported to you by private e-mail!
For completeness, this is the final status of the pool: pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 1.50K in 165h28m with 0 errors on Sat Jul 3 08:02:30 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t6d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t7d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 cache c2t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Thank you very much for your help. We did not need to add additional RAM to solve this, in the end. Instead, we needed to persist with the import through several panics to finally work our way through the large inconsistent dataset; it is unclear whether the resilvering caused additional processing delay. Unfortunately, the delay made much of the data quite stale, now that it's been recovered. It does seem that zfs would benefit tremendously from a better (quicker and more intuitive?) set of recovery tools, that are available to a wider range of users. It's really a shame, because the features and functionality in zfs are otherwise absolutely second to none. /Andrew[i][/i][i][/i][i][/i][i][/i][i][/i] -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss