Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:58:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: re-adding a replacement into a pool of mirrors Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908211855300.63419@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <m2vdkghgir.wl%randy@psg.com> 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> <m2vdkghgir.wl%randy@psg.com>
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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 <class> 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?
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