On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:20 PM, George wrote: >> Because of that I'm thinking that I should try >> to change the hostid when booted from the CD to be >> the same as the previously installed system to see if >> that helps - unless that's likely to confuse it at >> all...? > > I've now tried changing the hostid using the code from > http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5075254 NB: you need to leave this > running in a separate terminal. > > This changes the start of "zpool import" to > > pool: storage2 > id: 14701046672203578408 > state: FAULTED > status: The pool metadata is corrupted. > action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data. > The pool may be active on another system, but can be imported using > the '-f' flag. > see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-72 > > > but otherwise nothing is changed with respect to trying to import or clear > the pool. The pool is 8TB and the machine has 4GB but as far as I can see via > top the commands aren't failing due to a lack of memory. > > I'm a bit stumped now. The only thing else I can think to try is inserting > c9t4d4 (the new drive) and removing c6t4d0 (which should be fine). The > problem with this though is that it relies on c7t4d0 (which is faulty) and so > it assumes that the errors can be cleared, the replace stopped and the drives > swapped back before further errors happen.
I think it is quite likely to be possible to get readonly access to your data, but this requires modified ZFS binaries. What is your pool version? What build do you have installed on your system disk or available as LiveCD? regards victor _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
