From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 3 00:53:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15649106566B for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:53:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: from email.octopus.com.au (email.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0EB8FC21 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:53:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1E7FE172A6; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:53:21 +1100 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on email.octopus.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 Received: from [10.1.50.60] (ppp121-44-9-159.lns10.syd7.internode.on.net [121.44.9.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: admin@email.octopus.com.au) by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0874417239; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:53:17 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <49AC7EF4.4010809@modulus.org> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:51:00 +1100 From: Andrew Snow User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080523) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cache References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! zpool corrupted! 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: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:53:14 -0000 It sounds like your superblocks got corrupted. There might still be good file data in there but you've lost the top level directory structure. There is a dearth of tools for recovering data from ZFS pools. Its a very good idea to use something like copies=2 or copies=3 if you are using ZFS on a single disk system like a laptop!! - Andrew