Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:17:08 -0500 From: Pete Erickson <redlamb@redlamb.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exporting ZFS Pool Message-ID: <20100908181708.GA15884@does.not.exist> In-Reply-To: <20100908164908.GA89940@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100907212501.gt31sgaog0w4g4ko@imp.redlamb.net> <4C872B17.3020606@cyberleo.net> <20100908093648.1vt3q2ut4wkk0g0g@imp.redlamb.net> <20100908164908.GA89940@dan.emsphone.com>
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** Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> [2010-09-08 11:49:08 -0500] ** > In the last episode (Sep 08), Pete Erickson said: > > On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> wrote: > > > On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote: > > >> I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playing around with different > > >> file-backed set ups to determine how I will eventually configure my > > >> pools. I've recently come across a problem with exporting a pool, but > > >> I'm not sure if it's a bug or just my poor understanding of ZFS. I > > >> create a simple pool using 2 128MB files. After exporting the pool, I am > > >> unable to import it and the pool is not found by the zpool command. Any > > >> advise would be appreciated. I'm currently running 8.1 STABLE. > > > > > > Curious, neither can I (8.1-RELEASE): > > > > > > (f84104b2)[cyberleo@akisha /tmp/zp]$ truncate -s 256m d1 d2 > > > (f84104b2)[cyberleo@akisha /tmp/zp]$ sudo zpool create pool /tmp/zp/d1 /tmp/zp/d2 > > Try using mdconfig to attach these files as disk devices. "mdconfig -a -t > vnode -f /tmp/zp/d1" and "-f /tmp/zp/d2" (you'll get two md# devices), then > see if the zpool import command is any happier. It may be looking for disk > devices and not files. This seemed to work. I was able to export the pool and reimport it without a problem. I'll use this for testing, however, correct me if I'm wrong, but this should still work without attaching it as a disk device, correct? Prior to testing this, I tried using the the files again without mounting and I received the error stating that it was missing one of the files. It clearly identified disk1.dd as present, but was unable to find disk2.dd.
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