Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:44:49 -0600 From: Axel <bsd@acd.homelinux.org> To: Adam Jacob Muller <freebsd-current@adam.gs> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS pool not working on boot Message-ID: <m3vea6gtr2.fsf@vecta0.vectavision.com> In-Reply-To: <E6CAB30C-E22C-4C46-8F43-B69A91E71FFF@adam.gs> (Adam Jacob Muller's message of "Wed\, 19 Sep 2007 03\:24\:25 -0400") References: <E6CAB30C-E22C-4C46-8F43-B69A91E71FFF@adam.gs>
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Adam Jacob Muller <freebsd-current@adam.gs> writes: > Hello, > I have a server with two ZFS pools, one is an internal raid0 using 2 > drives connected via ahc. The other is an external storage array with > 11 drives also using ahc, using raidz. (This is a dell 1650 and > pv220s). > On reboot, the pools do not come online on their own. Both pools > consistently show as failed. > > the exact symptoms vary, however I have seen that many drives are > marked as variously "corrupt" or "unavailable" most zpool operations > fail with "pool is unavailable" errors. > > Here is the interesting part. > Consistently, 100% of the time, a zpool export followed by a zpool > import restores the arrays to an ONLINE status. Once the array is > online, it's quite stable (I'm loving ZFS btw, thank you to everyone > for the hard work on this, ZFS is fantastic) and works great. > > Anyone have any ideas why this might occur and what/if the solution is? > > Any additional information can be provided on-request, I am running > current from approximately 1 week ago. > > -Adam > There is a file called /boot/zfs/zpool.cache that is kept in sync and loaded at boot time. If that's not there , e.g. by your /boot pointing to it , you're hosed. -- Axel
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