Hi I''m using fairly stock S10, but this is really just a zfs/zpool question. # uname -a SunOS peach 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 Misremembering the option to file for handling special files (-s), I executed the following: # file -m /dev/dsk/c*s2 My shell would have expanded this as follows: # ls /dev/dsk/c*s2 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 This is a SB100 with 2 disks. c0t2d0 has the OS and other partitions, c0t2d0 is the CDROM. The other disk was one large, single disk, zpool. It''s not mountable now. # zpool status -v pool: tank state: FAULTED status: One or more devices could not be opened. There are insufficient replicas for the pool to continue functioning. action: Attach the missing device and online it using ''zpool online''. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-D3 scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas c0t0d0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open Not knowing what the "file -m ..." command might have done, I wonder if this situation is recoverable? Looking at the smf logs I see that my pool (tank) is at least recognized a bit: # fmdump -eV .... Feb 09 2007 16:41:46.082264521 ereport.fs.zfs.vdev.open_failed nvlist version: 0 class = ereport.fs.zfs.vdev.open_failed ena = 0x101638757400001 detector = (embedded nvlist) nvlist version: 0 version = 0x0 scheme = zfs pool = 0x347b6d721b99340d vdev = 0xa7f43f56535e14a8 (end detector) pool = tank pool_guid = 0x347b6d721b99340d pool_context = 1 vdev_guid = 0xa7f43f56535e14a8 vdev_type = disk vdev_path = /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 vdev_devid = id1,dad at AIC35L120AVV207-0=______VNVD06G4C63J3L/a parent_guid = 0x347b6d721b99340d parent_type = root prev_state = 0x1 __ttl = 0x1 __tod = 0x45cc963a 0x4e741c9 Feb 09 2007 16:41:46.082265280 ereport.fs.zfs.zpool nvlist version: 0 class = ereport.fs.zfs.zpool ena = 0x101638757400001 detector = (embedded nvlist) nvlist version: 0 version = 0x0 scheme = zfs pool = 0x347b6d721b99340d (end detector) pool = tank pool_guid = 0x347b6d721b99340d pool_context = 1 __ttl = 0x1 __tod = 0x45cc963a 0x4e744c0 Any ideas/suggestions? Kevin This message posted from opensolaris.org