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Subject: Re: ZFS recovery after power failure
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On 12/18/2010 2:11 PM, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> I do know how to recover pools. But I do want to know how it failed.

Er, I meant to say I do NOT know how to recover pools.

Sergey's failure doesn't fit any pattern I am familiar with.  Loss of
power should not have been harmful.

Perhaps 3ware "cheats" and returns success to SYNC before the disk
actually completes the command?