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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:36:34 -0500
From:      Rich <rincebrain@gmail.com>
To:        Josh Carter <josh@multipart-mixed.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and reordering drives
Message-ID:  <5da0588e0912051836m28ad14cald32277d94aff7c66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA100C20-5F93-4DCE-B576-474DAEC10747@multipart-mixed.com>
References:  <20091205170400.GM73250@gremlin.foo.is> <8555674.871260033069220.JavaMail.root@zimbra> <20091205184112.GP73250@gremlin.foo.is> <5da0588e0912051052p25fb743ele098ed9cb9de8fa0@mail.gmail.com> <20091205190641.GQ73250@gremlin.foo.is> <20091205191526.GR73250@gremlin.foo.is> <CA100C20-5F93-4DCE-B576-474DAEC10747@multipart-mixed.com>

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Sure - the problem, as observed above, is no longer reordering (which
as someone noted, can be fixed by importing by gpid out of /dev, on
FBSD or Solaris), but that one of the drive sizes /shrank/, presumably
due to bad blocks.

- Rich

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Josh Carter <josh@multipart-mixed.com> wrot=
e:
> FWIW, I've hit drive re-ordering problems several times on FreeBSD and Op=
enSolaris (most of those due to me doing abusive things to the system on pu=
rpose). In all cases a "zfs export [pool]" and "zfs import [pool]" fixed th=
e issue. I'm not sure exactly what ZFS is doing, but even across reboots it=
 appears to remember the configuration it used to see, and insist on seeing=
 it again. An export/import forces ZFS to forget what it knows and look at =
what's on the drives.
>
> -Josh
>
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