From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 15:11:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C8416A418; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3F613C458; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BC82EBB5A; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:46 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OTbGZofUbgyY; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (daemon.egr.msu.edu [35.9.44.65]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BB52EBB5F; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 21281) id B19B033C22; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:45 -0500 From: Adam McDougall To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Message-ID: <20071115151145.GV37473@egr.msu.edu> References: <473AE404.9090605@restart.be> <473AF1BE.1060008@restart.be> <473BA651.1030109@egr.msu.edu> <20071115082556.GC80222@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071115082556.GC80222@garage.freebsd.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Henri Hennebert , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS from FreeBSD -> Indiana -> FreeBSD - some problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:11:47 -0000 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:25:56AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:52:17PM -0500, Adam McDougall wrote: > For what its worth, I ran across a similar issue. I moved a scsi card > in my server which caused da2 and da3 (each with a separate zfs pool > with no redundancy) become swapped, which I did not predict. ZFS was > completely confused by this, and rather than swap cables and reboot, I > decided to try the export and import. Worked fine. I was a little > dissapointed and surprised that I had to take action, but more surprised > that such a simple fix was possible (yet predicted) when the error > message on sun's website basically indicated 'you are totally screwed, > game over, data lost'. I wasn't in a situation were I would have lost > any valuable data. Maybe it was terminally confused because both > devices it wanted were in use by the other 'failed' pool. In my perforce branch, this is already improved. FreeBSD will detect disk name changes, etc. It already does, but only with ATA disks. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl Ah, so that probably explains why everything worked out fine when I jumbled up 3 sata drives with a raidz zpool in another computer :) I didn't keep them in order because I figured I could export and import if I needed to, but I was pleased I didn't have to. Thanks.