There is a pair of disks in zraid mirror that I created in Linux, with ZFS-fuse. Now the machine I used them in is no longer around, and I kind of need to access the data on them.
The problem is that ZEVO simply fails to see them. This is how things go:
- I connected the two drives (via FW800) to my iMac.
- Mountain Lion pops up two dialogs that "the disk inserted cannot be read", and I click Ignore for both of them.
- Then...
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bash-3.2$ zpool showdisks
DISK DEVICE SIZE CONNECTION DESCRIPTION
/dev/disk2 1.36TiB FireWire External RAID Media
/dev/disk3 1.36TiB FireWire External RAID Media
- Seems okay, but...
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bash-3.2$ zpool import -d /dev/
bash-3.2$ zpool list
no pools available
Now there is something important about this. Everyone keeps talking about partitions... These disks are NOT partitioned. They were added "as is" to the zpool in Linux, they were managed entirely by ZFS. In Disk Utility they show up as unformatted.
Is there any way I can get ZEVO to see the zpool? Or should I just get a Linux and save the data from them? (a bloody chore that is going to be...)