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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 2024 18:20:07 +0200
From:      infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does a failed separate ZIL disk mean the entire zpool is lost?
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did you use two mirrored ZIL devices?

You can "zpool import -m", but you will probably be confronted with some
errors - you will probably lose the data the ZIL has not committed, but
most of your data in your pool should be there


On 09.09.24 17:51, andy thomas wrote:
> A server I look after had a 65TB ZFS RAIDz1 pool with 8 x 8TB hard disks
> plus one hot spare and separate ZFS intent log (ZIL) and L2ARC cache
> disks that used a pair of 256GB SSDs. This ran really well for 6 years
> until 2 weeks ago, when the main cooling system in the data centre where
> it was installed failed and the backup cooling system failed to start up=
.
>
> The upshot was the ZIL SSD went short-circuit across its power
> connector, shorting out the server's PSUs and shutting down the server.
> After replacing the failed SSD and verifying all the spinning hard disks
> and the cache SSD are undamaged, attempts to import the pool fail with
> the following message:
>
> NAME=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 SIZE=C2=A0 ALLOC=C2=A0=C2=A0 FR=
EE=C2=A0 CKPOINT=C2=A0 EXPANDSZ=C2=A0=C2=A0 FRAG=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 CAP=C2=
=A0 DEDUP
> HEALTH=C2=A0 ALTROOT
> clustor2=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -=
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =
-
> UNAVAIL=C2=A0 -
>
> Does this mean the pool's contents are now lost and unrecoverable?
>
> Andy
>



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