On 08/20/2012 02:55 PM, Ernest Dipko wrote: > Is there any way to recover the data within a zpool after a spool create -f > was issued on the disks? > > We had a pool that contained two internal disks (mirrored) and we added a > zvol to it our of an existing pool for some temporary space. After the > reboot, the pool was not able to be imported because it could not find the > zvol disk. Trying to import the pool and specifying a -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool > actually found the zvol which contained the missing disk, but failed import > with missing disks (the two internal). > > We then tried to recreate the pool, which was successful - but without data… >
Do this: Create a directory somewhere and make links (soft will work) to the devices that are in the pool, then pass the path to that dir to -d. -d expects a directory containing the devices, not the actual devices. Just learned this a week ago myself. :) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
