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Take a look at "zpool import"

Without arguments, it will list the importable pools.  With a pool name =
or id, it will add the offline pool to the system and bring it online.

On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Andy Young wrote:

> One of our servers has a hard drive that contains the OS and then a =
set of
> 24 drives that were organized into two ZFS pools. I replaced the =
system
> drive this morning assuming, perhaps misguidedly, that I could easily
> recreate the two ZFS pools from the 24 drives. (You could do this =
pretty
> easily with RAID6 in Linux as I recall) When I looked closer at zpool
> however, its not obvious how to do this. I tried using zpool create =
but it
> complained that the drives were already part of another pool.
>=20
> Is there a way to recreate a zpool directly from the disks?
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> --=20
> Andrew Young
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