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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com>
Subject: Re: [ZFS] How to fix corrupt ZDB
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:26:55AM -0800, Beeblebrox wrote:
> *** correction on previous post ***
> 
> 
> Beeblebrox wrote
> > This command also did not change the corrupt entry for an old pool:
> *
> > # zdb -c *
> *
> > zdb: can't open 'asp': No such file or directory
> 
> It turns out, ZDB just looks in the first folder / file name it runs into
> when running this command. So change to a different folder, run the command
> and the error message changes to complain about a different folder. I was
> running that command at the top-level and I have a folder named "asp" there
> as well.
> 
> So disregard that bit...

More correctly, the * was expanded by the shell as a list of files/directories
in the pwd for you and then passed to zdb as arguments.

Regards,

Gary