Hang when importing pool

[Peter Maloney]

On 08/23/2012 10:26 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
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> Wow, really, thanks! Thanks a bunch! Though it may very well be just another dead end, I want to be able to say I really have done everything possible before being forced to throw a years worth of research(the data "trapped" inside the pool) down the drain. Again, thanks!
>

Without having any experience with zfs data recovery, I suggest you at
least try, before abandoning that data, if it is very valuable.

Here is a random link I found where a guy demonstrated getting  a file
out of raidz:

http://mbruning.blogspot.de/2009/12/zfs-raidz-data-walk.html

Getting a whole file system would likely be a lot of work though.


And I asked before, but you didn't answer... have you tried importing it
in Solaris? FreeBSD is not perfect, you know.... maybe ZFS has a few
advantages on its native platform. (and I would back up with dd before
doing anything that can change the data, but you've probably already
missed that opportunity on your first "-f" import)