Re: ZFS: Rescue FAULTED Pool

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> a ZFS pool (RAINDZ(1)) has been faulted. The pool is not importable
> anymore. neither with import -F/-f.
> Although this pool is on an experimental system (no backup available)
> it contains some data to reconstruct them would take a while, so I'd
> like to ask whether there is a way to try to "de-fault" such a pool.
>
> The pool is comprised from 7 drives as a RAIDZ1, one of the SSDs
> faulted but I pulled the wrong one, so the pool ran into suspended
> state.
> The host is running the lates Xigmanas BETA, which is effectively
> FreeBSD 14.1-p2, just for the record.
>
> I do not want to give up, since I hoped there might be a rude but
> effective way to restore the pool even under datalosses ...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Oliver

Reinserting the wrongly pulled SSD and rebooting should be sufficient.
Have you not yet tried that?  If you really can't reboot for some
reason, you could try "zpool clear".  However, the only time I tried
that to fix a suspended pool it resulted in some data corruption.  So
I recommend rebooting instead.