[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 crashing when trying to import ZFS pool

[Jan Owoc]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:42 AM, CJ Keist <cj.keist at colostate.edu> wrote:
> I'm in a big bind.  Have a OI system running 151a7 and this morning the
> system was hung. I did force reboot and when the system tryies to mount my
> 57TB zfs data pool it doing a system panic and dumps core.  The raid
> controller is a MegaRaid 92608i and it reports no issues with any of the
> drives, all green.  The last zpool status report from yesterday was clean
> with no errors.
>
> With nothing working, I tried a fresh install of OI 151a7 and then tried to
> import the zpool data, and it again crashes the system.
>
> Just looking for any other ideas I could try before I have to say the entire
> data pool is lost?

Do you know what zpool version is on there? If it's zpool 28 (i.e.
without feature flags), you could try any of a number of other OSes to
see if they are able to not crash when importing, and then do a clean
export. You may need to go back a few transactions (using zpool import
-F).

Cheers,
Jan