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Where'd my zpool data go?

N.B. I'm a complete noob when it comes to ZFS pools. I created a ZFS pool yesterday across 4 3TB HDDs, like so: 2017-06-10.16:31:08 zpool create data sda sdc sdd sde 2017-06-10.16:31:29 zfs set ...
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zfs backup script cannot receive destination zpool is renamed

Hello I have an issue with a backup script for ZFS snapshots: basically the break down of the script is this: ### START OF SCRIPT # These variables are named first because they are nested in other ...
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How to add more physical disks to a mirror vdev (to increase redundancy)?

Can more physical drives be added to mirror vdevs after a zpool has been created? For example, if a zpool is created using: zpool create test_pool mirror /dev/sd0 /dev/sd1 mirror /dev/sd2 /dev/sd3 ...
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ZFS disk in two pools after reboot?

I'm pretty new to ZFS, so perhaps I'm reading this wrong. After rebooting my server I had to reimport my pool, and upon doing some was presented with this state: # zpool status -v pool: data ...
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How to export zpool from alternate disk slice?

I need some help in recovering ZFS pool. Here is scenerio. There are two disks - c0t0d0 - This is good disk. I cloned it from other server and boot server from this disk. c0t1d0 - This is original ...
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Unable to Import Zpool

We are facing an failure of one of our Solaris/ZFS file server. The h/w won't boot, we are not that worried about the server but the data is precious. We took out a set of 8 drives in raidz2 pool and ...
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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 ...
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zfs change block size without going offline

Given a raidz1 vdev on FreeBSD 10 with this config: root@gw:~ # zpool status pool: data state: ONLINE status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size. Expect ...
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ZFS vdevs accumulate checksum errors, but individual disks do not

I'm running a vendor-specific derivative of FreeNAS 9.3. My trouble started when I installed a new JBOD chassis to add two new vdevs into my pool, and the chassis had a bad board. During this time, I ...
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Is there a zpool configuration other than raidz2 which lets me survive ANY 2 out of 4 failures?

I am going to purchase a HP Microserver gen8 system for a home fileserver and it contains 4 drive bays. I will use those four drive bays to create a single zpool for mass storage. My goal is the ...
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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 ...
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ZFS restarts resilvering over and over again. Also very slow

Here's one of my Solaris 10 servers after a couple of disk replacements in a zpool pool: volume state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will ...
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zpool didn't increase after adding disk slice

i added formatted 3 different slices from a disk and added to a zpool but i didn't increase his size. This is the pool size before adding the slide root@snr-hosting-bta-02:~# zfs list z3363af79-edf5-...
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ZFS issue after enlarging image

I created a new img using the following command: truncate -s 250G disk.img and I replace the existing image that I used for zpool with that one using (lxd.img was 2G): zpool replace lxd lxd.img ...
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zfs zpool degraded drive missing

I have a degraded zpool called storage of 4 6TB Drives in 2 mirrors. One of the drives on the second mirror is unavailable. All cables seem to to be plugged in physically. Did my device id change? ...
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zpool forgot all data devices of a pool: how to bring them online again?

My Debian server is running ZFS on Linux. Today I had to reboot it two times due to software upgrades. A first reboot because of ZFS update from some 0.6.4-1.2-1-wheezy to 0.6.5.2-2-wheezy, which went ...
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ZFS pool slow sequential read

I have a related question about this problem, but it got too complicated and too big, so I decided I should split up the issue into NFS and local issues. I have also tried asking about this on the zfs-...
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ZFS permanent error; options for recovery

Background: small personal server, email, web, shell, etc, for family and friends. SunOS 5.11, snv_113 from November 2008. Server built in 2009. I believe that was either opensolaris or Solaris early ...
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No more space on FreeNAS 9.3. But only half of space actually in use based on "du -sh" command

This morning I got a warning on my FreeNAS 9.3 machine about "Not enough space" warning: The capacity for the volume 'SeanVolume' is currently at 85%, while the recommended value is below 80%. It's ...
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zfs pools unavailable, disks shared with other pools

My ZFS pool called data do not mount anymore after a shutdown. Maybe there was some automatic update on the computer. I Don't know. zpool status returns no pools available zpool import returns ...
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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 ...
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ZFS shows pool state FAULTED, but all devices are ONLINE; how can I recover my data?

Our 100TB NAS based on FreeNAS 8 was unexpectedly powered off due to power failure. After turning it on back, 100TB zpool "projects" was unmounted with state "FAULTED". I've tried zpool import -fFX, ...
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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 <dead drive> <new ...
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ZFS pool members start sectors overwriten, including partition table and L0 L1 labels. Data and L2 L3 labels intact. How to recover?

Have two identical 2Tb disks in mirror ZFS pool. Unfortunately, overwriten start of disks with errorneus attempt to attach them via HP Smartarray P400 RAID controller as separate RAID0 logical volumes ...
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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 ...
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zfs raidz can not read from disk

my freebsd 10 server running on zfs raidz. I have a problem with reading files, test dd of=/dev/null if=/tmp/test/1000mb.bin bs=1024k count=1000 953+1 records in 953+1 records out 1000000000 bytes ...
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Is it possible to detach and reattach a ZFS disk without requiring a full resilver?

I have a ZFS mirrored pool with four total drives. Two of the drives are intended to be used for rotating offsite backups. My expectation was that after the initial resilvering I could detach and ...
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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 ...
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Can't find created directory on zfs

I'm using openSUSE 13.1. I created a new directory on a zpool zfs create zpgd0/iSCSI -o compression=lz4 -o atime=off but I'm not looking on that... So I do it again but I'm getting... zfs create ...
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Can I choose a sparse file as vdev for a zfs pool?

man zpool states that a vdev for a zfs pool can be a "regular file". Can I specify a sparse file (the warning about the integrity of the file being determined by the underlying filesystem should ...
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Why is the size of a zfs filesystem after sending it to a different pool different?

I've move a zfs filesystem from a pool made of a bunch or mirror vdevs to another pool made of two raidz1s with the following command # zfs send -R pool/project@moving | zfs recv tank/project As far ...
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2 drive failures in zpool raid

I have a question if I'm going to be able to restore this partition if I order replacement drives. zpool clear didn't seem to do anything. zpool status Partition1 ...
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zpool import: volume FAULTED with corrupted data, is it possible to save some data?

I was using Freenas 8.2 and decided to upgrade to 9.2. All seem to go well, upgraded zfs to 28 and rebooted. During next boot it seem to take forever and at some point I decided to turn off the ...
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Need to replace disk in zpool ... confused

I need to replace a bad disk in a zpool on FreeNAS. zpool status shows pool: raid-5x3 state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed after 15h52m with 0 errors on Sun Mar 30 13:52:46 2014 config: ...
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Need to identify disk in zpool ... how?

I need to replace a bad disk in a zpool on FreeNAS. zpool status shows gptid/5fe33556-3ff2-11e2-9437-f46d049aaeca UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open How do I find the serial # of that disk? ...
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zpool status reports error ... what next?

On our FreeNAS server, zpool status gives me: pool: raid2 state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. ...
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zpool import with missing device

I had two geli-encrypted partitions on separate disk in a zpool as simple disks (no raid*). I didn't want redundancy for all files, only for some selected datasets (for which I set copies=2). Now one ...
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ZFS on Linux/Ubuntu: Help importing a zpool after Ubuntu upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10, device IDs have changed

I have updated Ubuntu from version 13.04 to version 13.10, only to discover that the SATA disks IDs have changed, and my ZFS pool now fails. On new Ubuntu 13.10 the disk IDs are now ata-* instead of ...
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ZFS Recover from Faulted Pool State

I have a six disk ZFS raidz1 pool and had a recent failure requiring a disk replacement. No problem normally, but this time my server hardware died before I could do the replacement (but after and ...
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Cannot create zpool, how to get rid of intel raid volume?

This is a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer. It has 5 disks installed. The ada0 and ada1 disks are used with a hw raid to provide the root filesystem: root@gw:/home/gandalf # ls /dev | grep ada ada0 ada1 ...
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ZFS root pool free space

I have an openindiana (oi_151a7) box where I used 30GB for the root partition during installation. This has become rpool1. I cannot figure out how to make the remaining 202 GB available. Looking for ...
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Two devices with the same name in a zpool, cannot replace

Today I have found this on a server (FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE): NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM data DEGRADED 1.38K 0 0 raidz1-0 DEGRADED 1.38K 0 0 ad10 ONLINE 1.38K 0 0 ad12 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad14 ...
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Is it possible to change filesystem properties for an existing ZFS pool?

Suppose I created a pool with compression=on, and later wanted to turn off compression in-place - is that possible and if so how? I'm using Zevo CE on OS X in case that makes any difference (zpool ...
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Solaris 11.1 ZFS Root rpool shows one disk unavailable and online, how to detach

This is an x86 Solaris 11.1 installation. I have two zfs pools R500 and rpool I wanted to upgrade R500 from 500GB disks to 2TB which I've done then use the 500GB disks as root rpool disks to replace ...
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Disk replace breaks disk naming convention in zpool

After replacing two broken disks in my RAID-Z2 pool, the output of zpool status looks strange. The disks are addressed with their full path and also seem to contain 'slices', which all other disk don'...
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how do I add a new disk to ZFS and make it available existing mountpoints if the current pool is root pool?

My S11 server has the following configuration: disk #1 is used for rpool, which is the root pool I want to add disk #2 to increase the size available for the already mounted folders, but I can't add ...
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raidz plus mirror on the same disk different slice in 2 pools

I need a little assistance. I have 6 2TB disks. I'm planning to assign approximately 500GB to my root pool slice 0 mirrored with another disk, since one disk isn't used up I then decided to do a raidz ...
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FreeNAS: Renaming a zpool

Now that our server is set up, I would like to rename our zpools. I read somewhere that the way to do this is export & re-import under the new name. But will all my mount points and shares remain ...
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Move data to a new zpool [closed]

I want to create a new Zpool and move data from an old zpool The old zpool is like this: rpool [mirror-0 (c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0) ] I will insert two new hard drives and want to configure a new ...
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Freenas - Expanding volume

We currently have a server with 5x3TB disks configured as a RAIDZ: zpool status pool: raid-5x3 state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE ...
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