ZFS unable to import pool

[Karl Denninger]

Probably not.

You can try importing it read-only but if it refuses that then you're 
screwed. The reason is that ZFS spreads data in a given file around and 
as such it's likely that bits of various files are interspersed into the 
missing device, so a huge percentage of the files on the volume are in 
fact damaged and unusable.

/*Filesystem based "redundancy" is not a backup strategy!*/

On 4/23/2014 9:19 AM, Gennadiy Gulchin wrote:
> Any data can be salvaged?
>
> --Gena
>
>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 7:15 AM, Jordan Hubbard <jkh at mail.turbofuzz.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you added a single disk to a pool, you have no choice but to destroy the pool and start over.  The single disk will essentially degrade the performance of the whole pool, because it represents a unique (100Mb/sec, typical) transaction group now, and if you lose that one disk you will also lose the entire pool since it has no redundancy.
>>
>> This is a common mistake people make with ZFS, and it sucks, but block pointer rewrite was never implemented so that’s just the way it is, too.  That’s another reason for FreeBSD-based front-ends to ZFS like FreeNAS.  The GUI adds some seat-belts to prevent users from trivially doing things like that.  On the command line, all bets are off.
>>
>> - Jordan
>>
>>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Gena Guchin <ggulchin at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking though the history, i DID add that disk ada7 (!) to the pool, but I added it as a separate disk. I wanted to re-add the disk to the storage pool, but it added as a new disk…
>>> this does help a lille..
>>>
>>>
>>> anything I can do now?
>>> can I remove that vdev?
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