Hi all,
Long time user but first time poster, things have been good and I've never had to post - anyway (and I can already hear cries of anguish and horror as I type this out)....
I've been running a 5 bay USB enclosure on and now, very very aging (2010) macbook pro with a ZFS pool of 4 drives (and sadly when I set it up it was striped, so no redundancy ) - and now, either that enclosure or the macbook has degraded its self so far that I started getting the occasional "insufficient replicas" on the pool when too many things start working on it - and normally shutting down and rebooting the laptop works gets things up and running again (due to this I've been investigating proper NAS units and/or alternatives for storage needs) but....
as of last night the pool doesn't appear to import anymore, I see all the drives/partitions appearing as USB attached drives - just nothing imports - and no sign of logging, or errors I could find either ( I'm not on that machine at the moment to pull out exact details just now ).
After shutting down again, I tried plugging the enclosure into this machine and tried importing, but was greeted with a message saying it was still in use with another hardware id, and I should import with -f.
This however, also just greeted me with no errors, no visible logging, and no import. I'm beginning to suspect the enclosure is toast, but I was wondering if anyone could point me at where I should be looking for import related logging, or any tools I could try?
Whilst most of the content is backed up in the cloud, and I have a 4tb mirror of my RAW photos on another drive - restoring 2tb of music and audio recordings over the internet is less than ideal so any pointers/assistance in helping me resurrect the drives ( if possible, now I'm really wishing I'd fixed my stripe'd setup early on ).