[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI server failed overnight - some help restoring it!

Carl Brewer carl at bl.echidna.id.au
Thu Apr 21 03:48:24 UTC 2022


On 21/04/2022 9:35 am, Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> I have an OI server from ~2 years or so ago that went down overnight - 
> it has 5 HDDs, 2 as a ZFS mirror (root) and 3 as a ZFS raidz array.  I 
> can see all 5 drives when I boot off an OI USB boot image, but I can't 
> see anything more than the output from format, which sees that all 5 exist.
> 
> zfs list etc don't show me anything
> 
> Is there a way to try and mount these drives onto the USB boot image and 
> inspect them? Maybe I have a corrupted boot block or something?

As per another email, I think this ended up being a dying power supply 
not providing enough grunt to spin up 5 drives in time.




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