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Recovering a Suspended TrueNAS Pool Without Replacing Disks
An 11-disk RAIDZ1 vdev on a TrueNAS SCALE node entered SUSPENDED state with multiple drives faulted and one removed. The author recovered the pool without replacing any drives by diagnosing a shared-path failure rather than individual disk failures. Key steps included avoiding premature disk replacement, not adding or wiping disks, and using 'zpool clear' after verifying connectivity.
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The piece offers a valuable diagnostic reframe for ZFS administrators: simultaneous multi-disk faults often indicate a shared-path issue, not disk failures, and hasty replacements can cause data loss.
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