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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2012 12:50:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Michael Richards <hackish@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS Kernel Panics with 32 and 64 bit versions of 8.3 and 9.0
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1205061248070.1678@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPUouH2Ftt4ZDtanPmfTXa9%2BHRCkLCL=HcGqT9VgV%2BBrQcYE3A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 6 May 2012, Michael Richards wrote:
>
> I can accept the fact that some filesystem corruption may have
> happened from the bad RAM. The issue now is recovering it. All the
> hardware has been replaced but I cannot import the ZFS pool without
> causing a kernel panic and that is the the problem here. To me it
> matters not if the corruption occurred from RAM or the hard disk - I
> don't think it's a good idea to blindly trust any filesystem data. At
> minimum fail to import the pool but don't bring the entire system to a
> halt. This isn't even a system drive - it's purely data.

These are sentiments that I can agree with.  If the import can be so 
dangerous, it seems that there should be a way to import the pool in a 
user-mode (outside if kernel space) so that issues can be fixed 
without panicing the kernel.

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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