Re: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable after upgrading to r225312

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:59:38 +0300
on 07/09/2011 19:35 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 02/09/2011 16:35 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>> Then:
>> - obtain this patch http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfstest.head.diff
>> - cd sys/boot/zfs
>> - apply the patch to zfstest.c
>> - cc -I. -I../../cddl/boot/zfs zfstest.c -o zfstest
>> - run the resulting binary as root and provide your pool device(s) as
>> parameter(s); e.g.:
>>   ./zfstest /dev/ada0p4
> 
> Thanks to a lot of excellent testing, debugging and analysis from Sebastian (which
> went behind the scenes) we now have this patch:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-boot-gang.diff

I've updated the patch place.  The essence of the changes is the same, just done
in a slightly different fashion.  That should minimize the scope of the diff.
One extra change is that now the checksum is also verified for uberblock.

Pawel, can you please review it?

> The patch introduces the following changes:
> - checksum is now verified for gang header blocks
> - checksum is now verified for reconstituted data of whole gang blocks
>   (previously it is verified only for individual gang member leaf blocks)
> - reconstituted data of a whole gang block is now decompressed if the gang block
> is compressed
> 
> The last change is _the_ change.
> 
> If you use compression for a filesystem where your kernel resides and you get a
> problem with booting, then please test this patch and report back.
> 
> Many thanks to Sebastian!
> Additional heap of thanks to Doug Rabson who came up with the idea and
> implementation of zfstest.c!  This tool is of the immense help when debugging an
> issue like this one.
> 


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Andriy Gapon
Received on Tue Sep 13 2011 - 11:59:42 UTC

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