Christos Longros 6a717f31e6 Improve misleading error messages for ZPOOL_STATUS_CORRUPT_POOL
When devices are missing or claimed by another subsystem (e.g.
mdadm, LVM), zpool import reports "The pool metadata is corrupted"
and suggests destroying the pool. This is misleading because the
metadata is not necessarily corrupted -- it may simply be incomplete
due to inaccessible devices.

Update the status, action, and recovery messages to acknowledge
that missing devices can trigger this status, and suggest checking
device availability before resorting to pool destruction.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chris Longros <chris.longros@gmail.com>
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OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.

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