ZFS trashed by bad import

[James Phillips]

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On Sat, 2/17/18, Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: ZFS trashed by bad import
 To: "James Phillips" <anti_spam256 at yahoo.ca>
 Received: Saturday, February 17, 2018, 2:46 PM
 
 On 17/02/2018 09:41, James
 Phillips via freebsd-fs wrote:
 > # zpool import  ->
 shows list of available pools, including degraded striped
 mirror.
 > # zpool import -f
 8255478166520290766 granny
 > # zpool
 status (any zpool command cause same error):
 >      internal error: failed to
 initialize ZFS library
 
 Not sure if this is what happened, but it looks
 like the pool might have a
 filesystem with
 mountpoint set to / and it got mounted over the real / after
 import.
 So, you might have a mismatch
 between userland and kernel that causes the
 further issues.
 
 -- 
 Andriy Gapon
 

I did import by number because the zroot label conflicted.

-james