One recurring problem in my weeks of fighting the dead fileserver has been my inability to get a thumb drive mounted. I'm unable for example to post the stack trace from the crashes I was having, because I never managed to transfer that data off the system before installing over it.
When I'm in full multi-user mode, thumb drives seem to get recognized okay; but of course it's in maintenance mode or single-user that I really need them (especially when the network is not working). Is this documented anywhere? Because of its relevance to disaster scenarios, I think this should be dealt with in detail in the manual. (Unless I'm having two problems at once, and so far the evidence is against that, the underlying cause of my weird behavior appears to have been a bad piece of memory. At least, memtest found a failure, removing that simm removed the failure, and replacing that simm with a new one did not bring the failure back. So the particular dumps in question are probably NOT of any interest to ZFS people. But I still want to know how to get things on and off a system in single-user mode!) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
