Does a failed separate ZIL disk mean the entire zpool is lost?
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:51:05 UTC
A server I look after had a 65TB ZFS RAIDz1 pool with 8 x 8TB hard disks plus one hot spare and separate ZFS intent log (ZIL) and L2ARC cache disks that used a pair of 256GB SSDs. This ran really well for 6 years until 2 weeks ago, when the main cooling system in the data centre where it was installed failed and the backup cooling system failed to start up. The upshot was the ZIL SSD went short-circuit across its power connector, shorting out the server's PSUs and shutting down the server. After replacing the failed SSD and verifying all the spinning hard disks and the cache SSD are undamaged, attempts to import the pool fail with the following message: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT clustor2 - - - - - - - - UNAVAIL - Does this mean the pool's contents are now lost and unrecoverable? Andy