Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:48:12 -0500 From: Jeremy Thornhill <jeremy.thornhill@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Subject: Re: "corrupt or invalid GPT" when attempting to import Solaris ZFS pool (8.0-RC3) Message-ID: <b77635950911170948q467f9cfcv95dd088832924387@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1258478987.2303.62.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <b77635950911162010t511ca570v32880acb5e3e25a3@mail.gmail.com> <1DE2E5E5-B6A4-4870-A346-ABC1CD20EE34@lassitu.de> <b77635950911170454w78ffae07t12ef27c1634ccbe9@mail.gmail.com> <1258478987.2303.62.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote > This should be fixed in -CURRENT. The issue seems to be that solaris > claims that the GPT header is 512 bytes, where we expected it to always > be 92 bytes. The fixes are slated to merge to 7/8 stable within a few > days, however they won't make it into 8.0. Great news, thanks! > Sigh, yes... you have now trashed you primary gpt table. =A0PLEASE do not > go using dd to write stuff to your disks unless you a) know what your > doing or b) don't care if you trash your disks... > Indeed, I did not really care much about this disk, it's only a backup. I was using it as a dry run to see if I would encounter any issues before moving the 'real' data, and it did this job admirably :) > If is important... I can help you restore the primary header... Thanks, the disk is just fine again. I managed to restore the backup label using the Solaris system (after I RTFM'd on 'format'). Jeremy
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