Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:03:40 -0600 From: Pamela Ballantyne <boyvalue@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Moving ZFS root popol to a virtual server was: ZFS: Suspended Pool due to allegedly uncorrectable I/O error Message-ID: <CAESeg0xZZb71zB%2BAB_Y05C%2BoDG=3ak3-TiWgi0Mg2Jf-FKcwdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAESeg0wm9iZN=8tpo_rtC1hgRMzyr4dhJrQyxgSuiS183_9y8A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAESeg0wm9iZN=8tpo_rtC1hgRMzyr4dhJrQyxgSuiS183_9y8A@mail.gmail.com>
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--0000000000000623e90620794290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Many thanks to David Christensen, Ronald Klop, and Peter Much for answering my plea for help. Further reviewing the available evidence, it seems that the most likely cause of the problem is someone at the data center removing the disk drives from our server. This was probably accidental, not malicious. I have reported this to the hosting company, but I'm not expecting much. It is ancient hardware, circa 2011. Although it still performs decently. It is probably time for an upgrade, particularly since the hosting company is dropping support for bare metal servers. I am not sure how to move the existing root pool to a virtual server. I've tried a few simulations with VirtualBox, creating a source server and a target. The pools get moved, but the target server never boots (even when I remember to set bootfs). Worse, the target disks are reported as being corrupted each time I do it. Once again, any experience/advice here would be very much appreciated. Thank you again, Pammy --0000000000000623e90620794290 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Many thanks to David Christensen, Ronald Klop, and Peter M= uch for answering my plea for help.<div><br></div><div>Further reviewing th= e available evidence,=C2=A0 it seems that the most likely cause of the prob= lem is someone at the data center</div><div>removing the disk drives from o= ur server.=C2=A0 This was probably accidental, not malicious. I have report= ed this to the hosting company, but</div><div>I'm not expecting much.</= div><div><br></div><div>It is ancient hardware, circa 2011. Although=C2=A0i= t still performs decently. It is probably time for an upgrade, particularly= </div><div>since the hosting company is dropping support for bare metal ser= vers.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure how to move the existing root = pool to a virtual server. I've tried a few simulations with VirtualBox,= creating</div><div>a source server and a target. The pools get moved, but = the target server never boots (even when I remember to set bootfs).</div><d= iv>Worse, the target disks are reported as being corrupted each time I do i= t.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Once again, any experience/advice h= ere would be very much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you agai= n,</div><div>Pammy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div> --0000000000000623e90620794290--
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