On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Mark Morley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a small backup server (8.2-STABLE).  It boots from ufs and has a zfs 
> pool for backups that consists of 8 drives configured as 4 mirrored devices, 
> totally around 2.5 TB.
>
> Been working great, no issues, until the past few days when remote rsyncs to 
> it have started to get very slow (it's only at around %50 capacity).  
> Rebooting it helps for a while, then it gets slow again.  But this isn't the 
> problem now...
>
> After the last reboot, it froze while booting right at the point where the 
> file system gets mounted.  No errors, it just doesn't proceed past the ZFS 
> version message.
>
> I rebooted single user and tried to access it with "zpool status", and the 
> command hangs in the same way.  Any attempt to access it ("zfs list", for 
> example) does the same thing.
>
> The disks themselves seem fine.  They are all connected to a pair of Adaptec 
> RAID controllers (configured as individual drives, with mirroring handled by 
> zfs) and the controller software shows them all to be intact.
>
> I disabled zfs in rc.conf and was able to boot, but I can't access the pool.
>
> Any ideas on how to diagnose and hopefully repair this?
>

Your going to need to download a recent -CURRENT ISO that contans zfs
v28, then you can try to recover the pool as outlined in this post
http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=445269

zpool import -nfF -R /mnt rpool

If it reports that it can get back to good pool state, then do actual
import with

zpool import -fF -R /mnt rpool

In case first command cannot rewind to older state, try to add -X option:

zpool import -nfFX -R /mnt rpool

and if it says that it can recover your pool with some data loss and you
are ok with it, then do actual import

zpool import -fFX -R /mnt rpool

Note: I haven't given this a try on my system yet, let me know how it goes ;-).

Scot
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