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


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