Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:38:06 -0400 From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: Maurizio Vairani <maurizio.vairani@cloverinformatica.it>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot problem if a ZFS log device is missing Message-ID: <CC82FB9B-0676-4391-A494-9B5C388C80B8@bway.net> In-Reply-To: <521F0DEB.20408@FreeBSD.org> References: <521F05F0.4090607@cloverinformatica.it> <521F0DEB.20408@FreeBSD.org>
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 29/08/2013 11:27 Maurizio Vairani said the following: >> >> I am able to boot the PC without a cache device but not without a log device. Why ? > > The log could potentially contain uncommitted entries. Without the log device > there is no knowing if it did or did not. And if it did then the pool is > inconsistent state without the log device and so it can not be imported. If one is willing to accept that data is lost (like the log device is totally smoked), is there a way to boot knowing that you may have some data loss, or is the only option to boot alternate media and force a pool import (assuming that works without the log device)? Charles > > The cache is not persistent and so there is nothing needed from it upon a boot. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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