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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:13:09 +0000
From:      Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and reordering drives
Message-ID:  <20091205171309.GN73250@gremlin.foo.is>
In-Reply-To: <20091205170400.GM73250@gremlin.foo.is>
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Ok. Managed to import the pool by using atacontrol to detach ad18 from the
system first. I guess I'll just do a replace then to rebuild.

Baldur

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 05:04:00PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> Ok. Running zdb -l on the four drives seems to indicate that one of them
> has some label issues.
> http://foo.is/~baldur/brokenzfs/
> ad4, ad6 and ad20 all have identical labels, only differences are the ids of the disk
> holding the label, as expected.
> root@enigma:~# diff ad4.label ad6.label
> 12c12
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=972519640617937764
> 61c61
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=972519640617937764
> 110c110
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=972519640617937764
> 159c159
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=972519640617937764
> root@enigma:~# diff ad4.label ad20.label
> 12c12
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=10715749107930065182
> 61c61
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=10715749107930065182
> 110c110
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=10715749107930065182
> 159c159
> <     guid=12923783381249452341
> ---
> >     guid=10715749107930065182
> 
> ad18 has a somewhat broken label. Label 0 and 1 exist identical to the labels on the rest
> label 2 and 3 are broken or nonexistant.
> --------------------------------------------
> LABEL 2
> --------------------------------------------
> failed to unpack label 2
> --------------------------------------------
> LABEL 3
> --------------------------------------------
> failed to unpack label 3
> 
> How should I go about recovering this?
> 
> Baldur
> 
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:39:44PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> > Ok. The pool that was degraded imported cleanly but the pool that went
> > unavailable won't import.
> > If it is of any significance, I did change the BIOS disk controller settings
> > from IDE to AHCI and then back to IDE before I noticed this pool was gone.
> > 
> > root@enigma:~# zpool import zirconium
> > cannot import 'zirconium': invalid vdev configuration
> > 
> >   pool: zirconium
> >     id: 16708799643457239163
> >  state: UNAVAIL
> > status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk version.
> > action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data.
> > config:
> > 
> >         zirconium   UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
> >           raidz1    UNAVAIL  corrupted data
> >             ad4     ONLINE
> >             ad6     ONLINE
> >             ad18    ONLINE
> >             ad20    ONLINE
> > 
> > How do I go about debugging this?
> > 
> > Baldur
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:33:33AM -0500, Gary Corcoran wrote:
> > > James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> > > > Baldur Gislason wrote:
> > > >> When I plugged them back in they didn't go in the right order
> > > >> and now both of my pools are broken.
> > > > zpool.cache is broken.  Rename /boot/zfs/zpool.cache so that ZFS won't
> > > > load it, then import the pools manually.  (a reboot might be needed
> > > > before the import; not sure).
> > > 
> > > If one were booting from ZFS, would you be out of luck (since you wouldn't
> > > be able to access the zpool.cache before booting), or is there a way
> > > around this problem?  Just wondering, I've avoided booting from ZFS so far.
> > > 
> > > > The problem is that ZFS is recording the boot-time assigned name
> > > > (/dev/ad0) in the cache.  I'm hoping to get GEOM to put the disk serial
> > > > number in /dev, i.e., /dev/serialnum/5LZ958QL.  If you created the pool
> > > > using serial numbers then the cache would always work right.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way today, to avoid using the boot assigned drive name (e.g.
> > > /dev/ad2) when creating the zpool?  Again just wondering, I don't need
> > > a solution this year...
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gary
> > > 
> > > 
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