I am having trouble with a Raid-Z zpool "bigtank" of 5x 750GB drives that will not import. After having some trouble with this pool, I exported it and attempted a reimport only to discover this issue: I can see the pool by running zpool import, and the devices are all online however running "zpool import bigtank" with or without the -f simply causes the entire system to hang...keyboard and ssh are both non responsive. I am very new to Solaris and the *nix scene so your help would be greatly appreciated. I am currently running "zdb -e -bcsvL bigtank" to check checksums on the pool but this has yet to find anything wrong. I really need this data too! Please walk me through this one as best as you can. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Just trying to help since no one has responded.... Have you tried importing with an alternate root? We don''t know your setup, such as other pools, types of controllers and/or disks, or how your pool was constructed. Try importing something like this: zpool import -R /tank2 -f pool_numeric_identifier Perhaps you have some overlap with your existing pools and bigtank, so this might help to track that down. You can always export it and re-import with the correct root once you get to the bottom of this. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org