[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool errors a bit confusing

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On 4/4/2014 7:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> As an aside:
> Those files are only 1 copy of at least 3 or they would not be on this
> 'learning' rig.  I wanted to experiment somewhat realistically.
>
> About your comments:
> Of course I am aware that the output says the things you repeat above.
> Can you offer anything that actually shows the files to be as stated?
> Or some way to independently verify them to be in such bad shape?
>
> How would one know if a file was corrupt.  Wouldn't it be unusable or
> unreadable or something.... I mean .. critical means pretty serious
> right?
>
> Its a bit hard to buy that suddenly with no hard shutdown, power out
> ... on and on.... that this could be all that serious.
>
> Do you think the fact that only directories are referenced as bad has
> special significance.  Does it mean that all the files are bad.
>
> Please note that.  The music files seem to play ok, img files are
> viewable.  I only sampled a few.  but one of the Directories mentioned
> as corrupt, or whatever holds nothing but music and images.
> And yet they seem to work.
>
> I just cd'd in to one of the image directories to make sure I wasn't
> full of beans... and sure enough, pick a random image file and using
> `display' I can view without issues.
>
> Is there some mass test I can run like one of the normal file tester
> things. -f -e etc.  None come to my pea brain that I could run
> en-masse to try to find any truly corrupted files.
>
> Can anyone else report having seen something like this?
>
> Can the fact of my setting all four of my current pools to be
> mountpointed under /p  have any bearing here?
>
          You can try  doing this to see if it is able to  correct the 
problem:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbbwl/index.html

          My opinion is this  problem most likely occur because it was 
lacking redundancy.
          and scrub was not often run.