Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:23:08 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Mateusz Kwiatkowski <kwiat@panic.pl> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Academic exercise: trying to recover a corrupted pool Message-ID: <42FE9724-AE6E-46B4-8826-FB31876ED698@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <19f67e4f-7df8-6184-e396-aa8cde44eb83@panic.pl> References: <F6B823C4-313E-4AF2-B1F6-6AFE8E17458B@sarenet.es> <19f67e4f-7df8-6184-e396-aa8cde44eb83@panic.pl>
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> On 16 Jan 2018, at 14:57, Mateusz Kwiatkowski <kwiat@panic.pl> wrote: >=20 > On 01/08/2018 03:25 PM, Borja Marcos wrote: >> Hi, >> ONLY AS AN ACADEMIC EXERCISE, WARNING :) >> I have a broken ZFS pool and I=E2=80=99m wondering wether it should = be readable. The pool was made with four >> apparently troublesome OCZ SSD drives pulled from other systems. They = are connected to a LSI2008 adapter. >> The pool was created as a raidz2, so it=E2=80=99s supposed to survive = the loss of two drives. It has lost two of them >> and I am unable to import it. >> I have lost no useful data, I was using it just for testing. Now it = has become an interesting study subject though :) >> Any ideas? I have tried to recover even doing the =E2=80=9Cradical = thing=E2=80=9D (zdb -Z -AAA -e -p /dev poolname). No success. >> Again, I am just curious. >> Thanks! >=20 > Few years ago I made similar exercise with pool broken by some ZFS on = Linux bug. After many unsuccessful attempts to import the pool I came up = with an idea to read data without importing the pool. > Here's the script: https://gitlab.com/kwiat/zfs-recovery >=20 > The code is in no way effective nor beautiful, but I learned a lot = about ZFS when I was working on it. :-) Sorry for the very belated answer. It didn=E2=80=99t work either. I = guess that a SSD failure can be especially catastrophic even though I tried to read the drivers with dd and I got no errors. Borja.
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