Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:51:56 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: re-adding a replacement into a pool of mirrors Message-ID: <m2vdkghgir.wl%randy@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908211839070.63419@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> References: <m2eir5khm7.wl%randy@psg.com> <4A8E0C80.9030908@modulus.org> <m263chkh0l.wl%randy@psg.com> <4A8E0F39.6070407@modulus.org> <m23a7lkgjz.wl%randy@psg.com> <4A8E1347.3020301@modulus.org> <m21vn5kfni.wl%randy@psg.com> <4A8E15F9.6000303@modulus.org> <m2zl9tj05s.wl%randy@psg.com> <4A8E22A1.4080903@modulus.org> <m2tz01ihgq.wl%randy@psg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908211202010.16037@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <m2eir4iyqv.wl%randy@psg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908211839070.63419@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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>>>>> It might be worth zeroing the whole disk with dd if=/dev/zero >>>>> of=/dev/da1s3 bs=64k, and then see if you can re-attach. >>>> went single luser, zapped the drive, took a nap, then >>>> zpool attach tank da0s3 da1s3 >>>> worked. so geom did have it! >>> I'm not sure geom had it more than the slice had a zfs label on it and as >>> a foot-shooting precaution it did not want to let you add a device >>> from another pool to the existing one. Just a guess, though. Was the >>> replacement drive brand new? >> yep, brand new. > Perhaps it was pre-formatted as fat32? well, at the same time i replaced the bad spindle, i put a spare in. the spare came from the same source. so how would i look to see who's claws are gripping it? randy
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