What about trying this, since you mention that you want to "learn more hardcore OS and filesystem stuff" : https://www.joyent.com/blog/zfs-forensics-recovering-files-from-a-destroyed-zpool ?
I get that you don't have the exact same situation but you may be able still to learn how to walk through data structures on your fs... Maybe... Good luck 2015-10-14 5:45 GMT+02:00 Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]>: > On 10/13/15 19:39 , Jeb Winders wrote: > > Another question -- should I rename my zfs fs zones/archive to something > > else or would that make it harder to recover stuff ? > > > > or am I just deluding myself to think there will be any recovery ? > > On behalf of those of us at Joyent, I'd like to apologize for this > happening, though I appreciate that it doesn't actually end up restoring > your data or really help with the lost time. > > It appears that this change happened as a side effect of the efforts of > trying to unify the SDC and SmartOS platforms which were subtlety > different, that crontab entry apparently being a part of those differences. > > At this point recovery depends on how much activity has occurred. While > it's possible to roll back some amount in ZFS, it really depends on how > much activity has happened since the event. Unfortunately, I would > suspect that most of the metadata that would point to the data blocks in > question has been lost if it's been active for a while. If you have kept > that part of the zpool read-only instead, then you might be able to try > using aspects of zpool import -F to try and roll back the pool itself. > > If that's not the case, then at this point I would recommend renaming > the ZFS dataset using the zfs rename command. > > Robert > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
