Re: ZFS: Rescue FAULTED Pool

From: Bob Bishop <rb_at_gid.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:05:54 UTC
Hi,

> [trimmed]
> 
> Well, this is a hard and painful lecture to learn, if there is no chance to get back the pool.

Have you tried import -FX ?

-FXn might tell you non-destructively whether that will work but I have never been down this particular hole.

> A warning (but this seems to be useless in the realm of professionals): I used a bunch of
> cheap spotmarket SATA SSDs, a brand called "Intenso" common also here in Good old Germany.
> Some of those SSDs do have working LED when used with a Fujitsu SAS HBA controller - but those
> died very quickly from suffering some bus errors. Another bunch of those SSDs do not have
> working LED (not blinking on access), but lasted a bit longer. The problem with those SSDs is:
> I can not find the failing device easily by accessing the failed drive by writing massive data
> via dd, if possible. 
> I also ordered alternative SSDs from a more expensive brand - but bad Karma ...

Yeah well there’s quite enough things that might go wrong even without throwing dodgy SSDs into the mix.

> Oliver
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> A FreeBSD user

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Bob Bishop
rb@gid.co.uk