Problems with ZFS on AMD64 (and i386 now)

[tlott at gamesnet.de]

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:13:46AM +0200, Tobias Lott wrote:
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>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:42:49 +0200
>> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:19:42AM +0200, Tobias Lott wrote:
>> > > Hey Everyone
>> > >
>> > > I've managed to get some Output for this, using BETA2 LiveCD (gonna
>> > > try using BETA4 CD Tomorrow).
>> > >
>> > > 'zfs import -f poolname' triggered this, Booting kernel.old (BETA3)
>> > > and today built BETA4 Kernel Panic mounting zfs Volumes.
>> > > Booting single user mode I get output of zfs list and so on but
>> > > mounting whatever volume also Panics.
>> >
>> > Why -f? Were there a poblem in importing pool?
>> >
>> > > Stack output, if there's more you need I'll gladly help
>> > > http://i27.tinypic.com/2d78qpd.jpg
>> > > http://i31.tinypic.com/oqhv2w.jpg
>> > > http://i28.tinypic.com/oktsag.jpg
>> >
>> > Could you also provide top part of the backtrace?
>> >
>> Oh yeah my bad
>>
>> http://i29.tinypic.com/nqwxo2.jpg
>> http://i26.tinypic.com/209hanm.jpg
>
> Seems that one of the vdevs is NULL. Could you tell me why you decided
> to use -f option for importing the pool?
>
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>

Because zpool import tank says:
cannot import 'tank': pool may be in use from other system
use '-f' to import anyway