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ZFS corrupted data file

I have a FreeNAS server with a hard disk that has a corrupted file. Here's the result of a zpool status -v:

  pool: OTHER_BACKUPS
 state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
        corruption.  Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
        entire pool from backup.
   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 11h34m with 3 errors on Sun Jan 19 11:34:47 2014
config:

        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        OTHER_BACKUPS                                 ONLINE       0     0 2.08M
          gptid/b8989373-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx  ONLINE       0     0 4.16M

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

        /mnt/OTHER_BACKUPS/SOMEFOLDER/Somefolder/somefile.vmdk

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Now, the "somefile.vmdk" is a virtual hard disk for vmware. I'm sure that a few bytes of it are probably corrupted, but overall this won't really affect the integrity of the file for me. The worst case scenario is that a few small files on the NTFS file system inside that vmdk are corrupted.

I don't want to delete the whole file and I don't have a backup of it.

Is there any way to just tell zfs to flag the file as "good", and carry on?

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Reza_a

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Reza_a

You can leave it and use the file as is until you get a chance to copy it to new disk or somewhere else. You will just have error on your zpool status.

Frosty555

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I was unable to copy the file in this case