Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:05:04 -0500 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool Message-ID: <87AB608D4E8F9AFA9FE286DD@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <1a19ab9b1abd5ded195369aa261406dd@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> References: <1a19ab9b1abd5ded195369aa261406dd@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
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--As of January 17, 2012 5:19:15 AM +0100, Fritz Wuehler is alleged to have said: > zfs is famous for fucking itself like this. the only totally safe way is > to dd the drive since nailing the label doesn't clear out stuff at the > far end of the filesystem that can really ruin your day. don't ask me how > i know.. > > it will take a few hours dd'ing from /dev/zero to your devices but it is > well worth it when you do any major surgery on drives that had zfs at one > point and you want to use them over again with zfs --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks; I finally had some more time to play with this box again, and that did the trick. Took less than 2 hours, to do two drives. ;) (Simultainously, and one's a SSD.) (Well, I still can't figure out why I can't *boot* into ZFS, but at least I've eliminated one variable.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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