On 9/27/10 9:56 AM, "Victor Latushkin" <victor.latush...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Scott Meilicke wrote: > >> I am running nexenta CE 3.0.3. >> >> I have a file system that at some point in the last week went from a >> directory per 'ls -l' to a special character device. This results in not >> being able to get into the file system. Here is my file system, scott2, along >> with a new file system I just created, as seen by ls -l: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Sep 27 09:14 scott >> crwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0, 0 Sep 20 11:51 scott2 >> >> Notice the 'c' vs. 'd' at the beginning of the permissions list. I had been >> fiddling with permissions last week, then had problems with a kernel panic. > > Are you still running with aok/zfs_recover being set? Have you seen this issue > before panic? Yes. Well, I have removed those entries in /etc/system, but have not yet rebooted the box. > >> Perhaps this is related? > > May be. > >> Any ideas how to get access to my file system? > > This can be fixed, but it is a bit more complicated and error prone that > setting couple of variables. OK. Sounds like restoring from my backup would be best? What causes this? I saw this exact same behavior on my home box, and had to restore about two weeks ago. Not very encouraging. :( Is there anything I can provide to help people who know more than me solve this problem? > > Regards > Victor Thanks Victor. -Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We value your opinion! How may we serve you better? Please click the survey link to tell us how we are doing: http://www.craneae.com/ContactUs/VoiceofCustomer.aspx Your feedback is of the utmost importance to us. Thank you for your time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crane Aerospace & Electronics Confidentiality Statement: The information contained in this email message may be privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient, or any employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient. Any unauthorized use, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and all attachments from your electronic files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss