well...let me give a little bit of background. I built the system with a 4U, 16 drive rackmount enclosure; without a backplane. Originally, I thought that I wouldn't really need one because I was going to have 16 cables running around anyways.
Once everything was in place, and AFTER, I had transferred my data to the system; then I decided that I was going to move it into my room (and out of the living room where I was doing the build). However, in order for me to lift the unit, I needed to pull the drives out so that it would actually be moveable, and in doing so, I think that the drive<->cable<->port allocation/assignment has changed. If there is a way for me to figure out which drive is supposed to go to which port (as reported by ZFS and/or Solaris), than also in theory, I should be able to figured out what goes where, and it would have been like as if nothing changed. The problem is I don't know what that map(ping) is. The other thing is that the documentation doesn't really exactly tell you what steps you should do to recover from something like that. It just says you should re-initialize the drives. My hope is that someone, SOMEWHERE, would be able to have some suggestions as to what I can do from here, other than crying about the lost data, biting the bullet, and reinstalling the OS from scratch again. (whether it'd be here, on OpenSolaris, ZFS, Jeff Bonwick (and his team), Bill Moore (and his team) -- I just think that with over 200 million tests, that someone would have tried that and been through what I'm going through now, and knows what needs/should be done at this point in order for safe data recovery and bring the pool back online.) If there's a way to find out the original drive mapping, then I can try and see if I can slowly replicate that to bring the pool back online. (I do remember that when I was doing the OS install, that the drives on the aac wasn't listed in sequential order, it was ..t7, then..t9, t2, t8, etc.. (I don't recall what it was exactly of course, and I don't know why it wouldn't scan it sequentially)). This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
