From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 21 23:58:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFC7106568F for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from warped.bluecherry.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:440:eeee:fffb::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374288FC16 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (adsl-67-125-51.shv.bellsouth.net [98.67.125.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by warped.bluecherry.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B9A4920E426; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:58:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7LNwaUa064930; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:58:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:58:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Wes Morgan To: Randy Bush In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4A8E0C80.9030908@modulus.org> <4A8E0F39.6070407@modulus.org> <4A8E1347.3020301@modulus.org> <4A8E15F9.6000303@modulus.org> <4A8E22A1.4080903@modulus.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at warped X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs Subject: Re: re-adding a replacement into a pool of mirrors X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:58:41 -0000 On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Randy Bush wrote: >>>>>> 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? "geom list" might show you something... Try the part and label classes. You're using a partition for the vdev rather than the entire disk. What partition type did you use for creating it?