Questions tagged [zpool]
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Faulted zpool recovery - can I dd some disks to new disks to allow me to scavenge donors?
I am in the process of trying to recover a pool that had been degraded and neglected, then had a second mirror member fail, resulting in a faulted pool. For whatever reason, the spare never autoreplaced, even though that option was set for this…

Dirk
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cannot import a zpool volume : I/O error
this is on nexenta open storage. I have a zpool that is in UNAVAIL state because of some disks.
# zpool import -F
pool: delta
id: XYAZA
state: UNAVAIL
status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
action: The pool cannot be…

Nikhil Mulley
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Importing an exported pool on Solaris 11 fails
Unable to import an exported pool.
Based on the info below, am I able to somehow import the pool? Or, is there a way to retrieve the data from the drive itself?
There is no corruption on either disks.
Solaris 11.3
# zpool upgrade -v
This system…

mfridman
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ZFS slow read speed on 8 drive 4 vdev striped mirrors
I have 8 3TB WD Red SATA drives sdb through sdi i use in my pool.
My boot and OS drive is a an 850 EVO SSD on sda.
The 8 WD drives are on a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Add-on Card, 8-Channel SAS/SATA Adapter with 600MB/s per Channel in a PCIE 3.0 x16…

CB40
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zpool disappears whenever solaris cluster reboot or power cycle
I have following setup
Oracle Solaris 10 -> 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4v sparc
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit production
Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 for Solaris 10 sparc
Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition…

Halit Sakca
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ZFS - zpool replace never finishes
I have a 5 x 3TB raidz1 array on a ubuntu 14.04.1 server. Last month, one of the drives died (audible clicking). I was able to replace the drive with zpool replace RAID . That finished without issue and the pool was online…

KernelSanders
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Solaris: Encrypting a zpool NOT a dataset within a pool?
What is the way in Solaris to encrypt a zpool? All the documentation supporting ZFS encryption talk about using "zfs create" and specifying a dataset WITHIN a pool. I just became SA for several Solaris servers and they all have encrypted zpools, but…

Jon Smith
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How to partition drive for ZFS
I'm trying to create a ZFS pool using the following command:
zpool create MyPool disk /dev/sda
However, I get the following error:
cannot use '/dev/disk': must be a block device or regular file
I feel like I should have been able to find someone…

E-rich
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Can't remove zfs log device from pool
I run a FreeBSD 9.0 server with ZFS pool version 28 and ZFS version 5.
I had two pools with a log on ssd's two partitions. These pools was created on FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS pool version 15, and ZFS version 4.
After I upgraded to the new zfs version,…

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Unable to zpool drive: is in use and contains a unknown filesystem
Created raidz1 drive array on CentOS8. Five drives and after reboot zpool would not load.
Did a zpool import -a, to import the zpool and datasets. I had a missing drive, which bugs me to no avail, I've been using ZFS for awhile and always use…

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zfs remove wrongly added device
I accidentally added a device as normal pool device instead of cache device. Is there a way undo this? (I basically forgot to type cache when adding the device)
I can't remove it
root@dmi-vault2:~# zpool remove tank…

Bas
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Expand existing RAID1 zpool into RAID10 zpool
I'd like to expand/convert my existing RAID1 (2x 3TB mirror) zpool to RAID10 zpool by adding 2 more 3TB HDDs without losing (or moving) data stored on my existing pool.
The final result will look like 2x3TB (existing mirror) + 2x3TB (new mirror)…

MrQ
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zpool replace ran successfully, but still recommends zpool replace. What is it telling me?
A drive failed in a raidz3 (pci-0000:03:00.0-scsi-0:0:10:0), and I replaced it with an available spare (wwn-0x5000c500858252ef):
pool: darkpool
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices are faulted in response to persistent errors.
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ZFS replace disks in freebsd, how and when
I have the following zpool configuration:
zpool status
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
da1 ONLINE 0 0 0
da0 ONLINE…

Sebastian
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ZFS (Freenas) off-lining an apparently healthy drive during scrub
I have a 4 disc RAIDZ config running on Freenas 9.1. Earlier I noticed that one of the drives had been taken offline. I ran smartctl, and all the discs passed SMART. A few days ago the machine had been powered off while a windows client was writing…

James
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