Re: [zfs-discuss] Solved - a big THANKS to Victor Latushkin @ Sun / Moscow

2008-10-03 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
Hi folks, I just wanted to share the end of my adventure here and especially take the time to thank Victor for helping me out of this mess. I will let him explain the technical details (I am out of my depth here) but bottom line he spent a couple of hours with me on the machine and sorted me

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solved - a big THANKS to Victor Latushkin @ Sun / Moscow

2008-10-03 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
Which VM solution was this ? VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, other ? How were the disks presented to the guest ? What are the disks in the host, real disks, files, something else ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] one step forward - pinging Lukas pool: ztankKarwacki (kangurek)

2008-10-02 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
Thanks Martin, Yeah, tried it but no luck :-( I do not think it is a hardware problem - in fact I tried removing every disk one by one with no luck - this is why I think it is not in fact a hardware problem... Kind regards Vasile -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zpool unimportable (corrupt zpool metadata??) but no zdb -l device problems

2008-10-01 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
Hi, I am running snv90. I have a pool that is 6x1TB, config raidz. After a computer crash (root is NOT on the pool - only data) the pool showed FAULTED status. I exported and tried to reimport it, with the result as follows: # zpool import pool: ztank id:

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool unimportable (corrupt zpool metadata??) but no zdb -l device problems

2008-10-01 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
an update to the above: I tried to run zdb -e on the pool id and here's the result: # zdb -e 12125153257763159358 zdb: can't open 12125153257763159358: I/O error NB zdb seems to recognize the ID because runnig it with an incorrect ID gives me an error # zdb -e 12125153257763159354 zdb: can't

Re: [zfs-discuss] one step forward - pinging Lukas pool: ztankKarwacki (kangurek)

2008-10-01 Thread Vasile Dumitrescu
on the advice of Okana in the freenode.net #opensolaris channel I tried to run the latest opensolaris livecd and try to import the pool. No luck, however I tried the trick in Lukas's post that allowed him to import the pool and I had a beginning of luck. By doing the mdb wizardry he indicated