Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:23:11 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on root booting broken somewhere after r270020 Message-ID: <5411159F.6060608@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <090135D4-8B1F-42B4-82FC-6FD2F1DBDDA8@icloud.com> References: <51AD1F36-1089-481F-8784-8BD8E6EF020F@icloud.com> <71DEB316-3CDD-4403-A397-BCE684725ABD@icloud.com> <25886C53-39C1-47A8-95F7-494FA6E7ABA2@icloud.com> <20140819071045.GS2737@kib.kiev.ua> <99FB0662-1954-4ECB-939B-06D0AA49C1A1@icloud.com> <20140819074643.GU2737@kib.kiev.ua> <FE64613E-B083-436C-8A08-13923ED88797@icloud.com> <7F008C560B48412AB66A1EBD9382DDAE@multiplay.co.uk> <CC276D59-F83C-4C78-BD9B-84040D3DE3E4@icloud.com> <9315C209-701A-49EF-85D3-ACCCD1513EC3@icloud.com> <959C54D2C8EB4AC8983DC1DA3CE042E3@multiplay.co.uk> <9F24DD48FBEA46C39F98DF600D46DA1A@multiplay.co.uk> <B4A16726-142D-458A-9B3A-153BDD579A63@icloud.com> <BAB9F50F-9D2C-435C-8035-659E2B412FC7@icloud.com> <4450778127F4407EB6566A0FE11CD651@multiplay.co.uk> <090135D4-8B1F-42B4-82FC-6FD2F1DBDDA8@icloud.com>
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On 09/10/2014 23:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > >> On 11.9.2014, at 4.25, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimmo Paasiala" <kpaasial@icloud.com> >> >> snip... >> >>> Just a thought. Is my problem related to the use of GPT labeled partitions >>> in my pool configuration? Your testing shows just "raw" devices like ada0p3 etc. >> >> That "should" have no impact on anything, we disable gptids and diskid's as we >> don't like them adding an extra layer for lookups when admins are working with >> the machines. >> >> Regards >> Steve > > I recreated the pool on the second disk as another single disk pool, performed zfs send -R … | zfs receive -F … > > It works now just fine with the kernel that didn’t work with old pool so there must have been something seriously broken with the old pool. I also noticed the old pool kept repeatedly restarting the resilver operations when I tried to expand it into a mirror. > > Case closed for now. > > -Kimmo > > Were you running a newer kernel with an older format zpool? I heard ixsystems had customers doing that and ran into corruption when they tried to modify the zpool in some way (expand? I don't remember). http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_09-zfs_war_stories
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