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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:19:23 +0100
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <pmh@hausen.com>
To:        A FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de>
Cc:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS: Rescue FAULTED Pool
Message-ID:  <F18BBBE4-C44C-433F-B366-658749E2C51E@hausen.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250130123354.2d767c7c@thor.sb211.local>
References:  <20250129112701.0c4a3236@freyja> <Z5oU1dLX4eQaN8Yq@albert.catwhisker.org> <20250130123354.2d767c7c@thor.sb211.local>

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Hi all,

> Am 30.01.2025 um 12:35 schrieb A FreeBSD User =
<freebsd@walstatt-de.de>:
> Well, in this case I do not use dedicated ZIL drives. I also made =
several experiences with
> "single" ZIL drive setups, but a dedicated ZIL is mostly useful in =
cases were you have
> graveyard full of inertia-suffering, mass-spinning HDDs - if I'm right =
the concept of SSD
> based ZIL would be of no use/effect in that case. So I ommited tose.

Dedidated SLOG vdevs only make sense if your workload involves =
synchronous writes
like when running databases or VM virtual disks over NFS or iSCSI.

> Every single SSD originally plugged in is now back in place, even the =
faulted one (which
> doesn't report any faults at the moment).
>=20
> Although the pool isn't "importable", zdb reports its existence, =
amongst zroot (which resides
> on a dedicated drive).

There a various things yet to try, but I have no personal experience =
with them:

- "force" read-only import
- import referencing a past transaction group, i.e. a previous version =
of the entire pool

How to find these transaction groups - no idea, sorry.

>>> The host is running the lates Xigmanas BETA, which is effectively
>>> FreeBSD 14.1-p2, just for the record.

This topic including sometimes successful recovery frequently pops up on =
the TrueNAS
forum. Did you ask in the Xigmanas community? Weren't they able to help?

I know there are regulars on the TrueNAS forum who know what to do. =
Maybe head over there?
As I wrote there are threads going like:

"please provide the output of `zdb something someting`"

*output*

"now to `zpool import something something`"

... etc.

HTH,
Patrick=



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