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

[CJ Keist]

Thank you all for the replies.
   I tried OmniOS and Oracle Solaris 11.1 but both were not able to 
import the data pool. So I have reinstalled OI 151a7 and after importing 
the data and having it crash, I booted up in single user mode.  At this 
point I was able to initiate zpool scrub data and it looks to be 
running!!  I will wait and see if the scrub can finish and then try to 
remount everything. See attached pic.



On 7/8/13 1:14 PM, Jan Owoc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:36 PM, CJ Keist <cj.keist at colostate.edu> wrote:
>> On 7/8/13 11:49 AM, Jan Owoc wrote:
>>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> Thank you.  It is ver 28 ZFS.  this is a supermicro chasis with 36 interal
>> drives so i cannot move another system to mount the zfs pools. I could try
>> install OpenSolaris or illuminos?  Is there a preference.
>
> You have many options, and I'm probably not the best person to offer a
> technical answer. My personal opinion would be to try this order:
> 1) current Illumos build [1] (maybe bug recently fixed)
> 2) OpenSolaris (maybe bug introduced recently)
> 3) FreeBSD 8.x or 9.x (maybe bug specific to Solaris-based implementations)
> 4) GNU/Linux with ZFSonLinux [2] (independent implementation)
> 5) current non-free Solaris (maybe Oracle fixed something)
>
> I don't know which distributions of Illumos have the most recent
> version from upstream, but some people report success using the
> "hipster repo" on OpenIndiana [3]. I haven't tried it myself, so can't
> personally vouch for its safety/stability. In most other cases you
> don't need to install the OS and could try to do it from a live
> session (i.e. quit the installer and drop to terminal).
>
> [1] http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions
> [2] http://zfsonlinux.org/
> [3] http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2013-May/002109.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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