ZFS pool faulted (corrupt metadata) but the disk data appears ok...

[Michelle Sullivan]

Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>
> So far (few hours in) zfs import -fFX has not faulted with this image...
> it's running out of memory currently about 16G of 32G- however 9.2-P15
> kernel died within minutes... out of memory (all 32G and swap) so am
> more optimistic at the moment...  Fingers Crossed. 
>   
And the answer:

11-STABLE on a USB stick.

Remove the drive that was replacing the hotspare (ie the replacement
drive for the one that initially died)
zpool import -fFX storage
zpool export storage

reboot back to 9.x
zpool import storage
re-insert drive replacement drive.
reboot


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Michelle Sullivan
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