[zfs-discuss] Solved - a big THANKS to Victor Latushkin @ Sun / Moscow

[Darren J Moffat]

Vasile Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just wanted to share the end of my "adventure" here and especially take the time to thank Victor for helping me out of this mess.
> 
> I will let him explain the technical details (I am out of my depth here) but bottom line he spent a couple of hours with me on the machine and sorted me out. His explanation: he invalidated the incorrect uberblocks and forced zfs to revert to an earlier state that was consistent.
> 
> The machine is now in the process of doing a full scrub and the first order of business tomorrow will be to do a full backup :-)
> 
> According to his explanation, the reason for the troubles I had was that Solaris was running in a VM on my Debian server and it was not shut down properly when the Debian server did a controlled shutdown following a UPS event.

Which VM solution was this ? VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, other ?  How were 
the "disks" presented to the guest ?  What are the "disks" in the host, 
real disks, files, something else ?


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Darren J Moffat