Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:21:50 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org Subject: ZFS: invalid label -- what is expected? Message-ID: <20080204092150.vprsphymqoog8cw4@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Hi, I'm in the uncomfortable situation that I have a ZFS which emits the message "label missing or invalid" for one of the 3 disks. As this is neither a mirror nor a raidz, the whole pool is not accessible. This pool just served as a backup for some data which had to be transferred from a graid3 to a raidz. The graid3 does not exist anymore, and the raidz is not populated yet... As I want to have the data back from the interrim-backup pool (several jails, the FreeBSD CVS, ... so more or less nothing important, but time consuming to get back to the previous state by reinstalling/downloading/...), I would like to know where this label zfs is complaining about is supposed to reside, and how is it suppsoed to look like? I would like to give a repair a try (giving zfs the label it expects and hoping it is able to recover at least most of the data (on this pool I had the property copies=2)). So anybody out there who can give me some information I need to do this, or at least knows some places in the zfs source I should have a look at? Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to freebsd-fs@. Bye, Alexander. -- Automobile, n.: A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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