UFS+J panics on HEAD

[Doug Rabson]

If all you are doing is reading, the ZFS on-disk format is well documented
and fairly easy to work with. Take a look at the ZFS bootloader code - that
implements a ZFS reader in not too many lines of code and could easily be
re-purposed for a recovery tool.

On 24 May 2012 09:04, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello, Steven.
> You wrote 24 мая 2012 г., 1:58:48:
>
> SH> While it might be a shame to see FFS go by the wayside are there any
> SH> big reasons why you would rather stick with FFS instead of moving
> SH> to ZFS with all the benefits that brings?
>  I afraid, that after real hardware failure (like real HDD death,
> not these pseudo-broken-hardware situations, when HDDs is perfectly
> alive and in good condition), all data will be lost. I could restore
> data from remains of FFS by hands (format is straightforward and
> well-known), but ZFS is different story...
>
>  And all these messages about panics after pool import... Yes, it
> could be result of REAL hardware problems, but I want to have some
> hope to restore some of the data after such crashes.
>
>  Yes, backups is solution, but I don't have money to buy (reliable)
> hardware to backup 4Tb of data :(
>
>  I attended "Solaris internals" 5-days training four years ago (when I
> worked for Sun Microsystems), and instructor says same words...
>
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
>
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