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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:30:55 +0200
From:      Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>
To:        Hugo Lombard <hal@elizium.za.net>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS unable to import pool
Message-ID:  <5357B27F.9090000@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140423121914.GL2830@sludge.elizium.za.net>
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op 23-04-14 14:19, Hugo Lombard schreef:
> Thanks, that seems like ample reason to reinforce my dislike of invoking
> the '-f' option on tools.
>
If you start forcing things, you know that you are doing something that 
can break things.
In my opinion it is nice to have the -f. There are many cases you need 
to force things.


> [1] There's no evidence at this point to my knowledge that the reporter
> used '-f'.  I'm making a general statement.
Like Tom Evans said, in the beginning it was possible to add whatever 
you liked to a pool. Later after many mistakes by a lot of people the 
vdev check  has been added.



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