>From what i understand, and from everything i've read by following threads
here, there are ways to do it but there is not a standardized tool yet, and
it's complicated and on a per-case basis but people who pay for support have
recovered pools.

i'm sure they are working on it, and i would imagine it would be a major
goal.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:23 AM, James Hess <no-re...@opensolaris.org> wrote:

> So much for the "it's a consumer hardware problem" argument.
> I for one gotta count it as a major drawback of ZFS that it doesn't provide
> you a mechanism to get something of your pool back  in the manner of
> reconstruction or reversion, if a failure occurs,  where there is a metadata
> inconsistency.
>
> A policy of data integrity taken to the extreme of blocking access to good
> data is not something OS users want.
>
> Users don't put up with this sort of thing from other filesystems...  some
> sort of improvement here is sorely needed.
>
> ZFS ought to be retaining enough information and make an effort to bring
> pool metadata back to a consistent state,   even if it means  loss of data,
>  that a file may have to revert to an older state,   or a file that was
> undergoing changes  may now be unreadable,  since the log was inconsistent..
>
> even if the user should have to zpool import with a  recovery-mode  option
> or something of that nature.
>
> It beats losing a TB of data on the pool that should be otherwise intact.
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