Sorry if this is the wrong forum to ask for help, but I'm just trying to recover from my ZFS array which I think is gone
The events as follows, I run Ubuntu 14.04 with native ZFS.
I had 3 files that have been corrupt for a while on repeated scrubs so I deleted them today. My ZFS pool was previously mounted on a legacy mountpoint. I rebooted and could not get past the purple Ubuntu screen. I thought I crashed my system so I re-installed Ubuntu and erased the previous install (the OS is kept on a separate drive to the ZFS array).Upon fresh install, it appears I am unable to import the ZFS pool as it just hangs for a long time with
zpool import poolname
Various usages of -F, -f, -X in combination yields same results
I am able to import with
-o readonly=on
But as it was previously legacy mounted, it doesn't show up as I don't have /etc/fstab configured. When I configure /etc/fstab to mount the ZFS array, I get stuck on the purple screen and it fails to boot.
I suspect the pool is corrupt, but I am able to still import it to read only and not mounted. It just shows that all disks are online when I use zpool import.
Any way to recover the files, or am I stuffed and should just start from scratch?
Silly me, I am on a system with non-ECC RAM, as I was blissfully unaware of this beforehand.
Thanks all
WS
The events as follows, I run Ubuntu 14.04 with native ZFS.
I had 3 files that have been corrupt for a while on repeated scrubs so I deleted them today. My ZFS pool was previously mounted on a legacy mountpoint. I rebooted and could not get past the purple Ubuntu screen. I thought I crashed my system so I re-installed Ubuntu and erased the previous install (the OS is kept on a separate drive to the ZFS array).Upon fresh install, it appears I am unable to import the ZFS pool as it just hangs for a long time with
zpool import poolname
Various usages of -F, -f, -X in combination yields same results
I am able to import with
-o readonly=on
But as it was previously legacy mounted, it doesn't show up as I don't have /etc/fstab configured. When I configure /etc/fstab to mount the ZFS array, I get stuck on the purple screen and it fails to boot.
I suspect the pool is corrupt, but I am able to still import it to read only and not mounted. It just shows that all disks are online when I use zpool import.
Any way to recover the files, or am I stuffed and should just start from scratch?
Silly me, I am on a system with non-ECC RAM, as I was blissfully unaware of this beforehand.
Thanks all
WS