I saw that during my research and figured it would not apply to me since my zpool is fine. Also fs data structures are well beyond my current area of expertise.
On the other hand it probably couldn't hurt and might make for another exciting email thread. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Hugo Peyrucq <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> http://www.listbox.com >> > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27748544-586b8942> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
