From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 08:55:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69903106566B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6108FC0A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.0.26] ([141.4.215.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MRDEV-1TEWaG3pyp-00UeIh; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <5035EFE7.9030007@brockmann-consult.de> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:55:03 +0200 From: Peter Maloney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120421 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <49C9D08A-85EF-4D23-B07F-F3980CBA5A97@slu.se> <20120815073135.GO6757@squishy.elizium.za.net> <02807469-A09D-4692-8530-CCAE31ED0534@slu.se> <3455173D-0875-4BFF-ABFF-CCEDEDD75DFE@slu.se> In-Reply-To: <3455173D-0875-4BFF-ABFF-CCEDEDD75DFE@slu.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:fLLSMAKkPOZhXiN4LcO8qjJoHbHT22pw9/jrTmSrWye 5G8PHa3+Mz3HSLqIGNjTam/zE/8dnqEs9/sK79bnIjNPl5QYE/ 2mPBvdrqb51UV3JSQTT4ZaX+H3Ww9tEYBt7xXMvTqIh1/QbiJl IY+n3eU64UO+ivq+iLDcreHVpvRT40l+8EmUvVODVGGSGIcCSc DmNy34j4BSTMvmMzbPGKMku5uj5w4zkzzNayKUaCi86Se+4RSm p4/Fs8HsOpJD1+PXI7vulx7bXsKs5iF/7oUNvC6ShFV6g3bm33 qdgjPcMLwYhVkypAN+9B0O6KBqCFg+Exs/VmWOpVx5sZam5b6K pFxU0RH3gWtVocKphzhJ28N7oPpntkjIsHrzuEbA6 Subject: Re: Hang when importing pool X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:55:05 -0000 On 08/23/2012 10:26 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote: > > Wow, really, thanks! Thanks a bunch! Though it may very well be just another dead end, I want to be able to say I really have done everything possible before being forced to throw a years worth of research(the data "trapped" inside the pool) down the drain. Again, thanks! > Without having any experience with zfs data recovery, I suggest you at least try, before abandoning that data, if it is very valuable. Here is a random link I found where a guy demonstrated getting a file out of raidz: http://mbruning.blogspot.de/2009/12/zfs-raidz-data-walk.html Getting a whole file system would likely be a lot of work though. And I asked before, but you didn't answer... have you tried importing it in Solaris? FreeBSD is not perfect, you know.... maybe ZFS has a few advantages on its native platform. (and I would back up with dd before doing anything that can change the data, but you've probably already missed that opportunity on your first "-f" import)