ZFS Forensics – Recovering Files From a Destroyed Zpool

http://www.joyent.com/blog/zfs-forensics-recovering-files-from-a-destroyed-zpool

by res0nat0r • 13 years ago

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insaneirish2• 13 years ago

The more we all use ZFS, the better. I truly hope ZFS on Linux keeps up the momentum it has, because it will increase the value of the overall ZFS knowledge base (like this post).

For more interesting topics by Mr. Bruning, I encourage you to look through the past "Bruning Questions" posts: https://www.google.com/search?q=bruning+questions+site:joyen...

BrainInAJar• 13 years ago

it will increase the value of the overall ZFS knowledge base (like this post).

Joyent uses ZFS on illumos exclusively. Not Linux

res0nat0r2• 13 years ago

ZFS is now available on Linux via FUSE actually.

insaneirish2• 13 years ago

I'm aware of Joyent's ZFS use on illumos and not Linux. What I meant is that ZFS on Linux has the chance to make ZFS become even more popular than it is already on illumos, FreeBSD, and Oracle platforms.

voltagex_• 13 years ago

TempleOS is reading HN today...

herf• 13 years ago

When I'm root, rm asks if I want to delete a file.

zpool destroy does not believe in asking.

thwarted• 13 years ago

Only because something set up an alias when you're root to pass -i to rm.

kalleboo• 13 years ago

That's your distro's default aliases talking

  ~$ whoami
  root
  ~$ touch test
  ~$ rm test
  ~$

harrytuttle• 13 years ago

Should it ask?

You typed it!

UNIX is unforgiving by default. Think before you type.

tbenst• 13 years ago

Have used ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris for a few years now. Had a few startles with 'unrecoverable' zpool failures on both Linux & FreeBSD that were easily fixable with a OpenSolaris LiveCD. When operating a zpool, shouldn't matter too much which OS you're on, but do yourself a favor and use the OpenSolaris LiveCD with the latest zpool version if you need to do any sort of recovery.

zeckalpha• 13 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language

ZFS Forensics – Recovering Files From a Destroyed Zpool

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