Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:17:03 +0200 From: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS zpool mirror drive replacement confusion Message-ID: <CABzXLYMZJJfpw=3ALn7EkvZvYizrKgogQor-vkpfpo5BnTKTQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110811160314.GA25076@cons.org> References: <20110811160314.GA25076@cons.org>
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2011/8/11 Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>: > My computer keeps doing what I say, not what I want :-) > > This zpool with a 2-drive mirror had a dead drive (ad10) which I > removed. After I tried to put ad2 as a replacement drive I ended up > with the drive not in the mirror, it seems to have extended the zpool > (it's size?). > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > cbackup3 DEGRADED 0 0 0 > mirror DEGRADED 0 0 0 > ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ad10 REMOVED 0 0 0 > ad2 ONLINE 0 0 11 > > Unfortunately I didn't keep note of the specific command that I used. > > Two questions: > > - Does somebody know offhand what I did and what I should have done > instead to get ad2 into the mirror? Maybe try : zpool history > - Would there have been a way to remove ad2 from this set? It didn't > let me, saying it can only remove drives from mirror or raid sets. > I think it should have been possible before I mounted the filesystem > in there read-write for the first time after the drive add. This > seems like an easy mistake to make. Unfortunately, There is no way to shrink a pool, or remove vdevs. > The array doesn't contain important data, just trying to sort out > things for the future. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."
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