Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:43:45 +0100 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ? Message-ID: <4AFF40B1.3040705@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <493EE416-62CE-4EA4-81A7-8F802789D5DD@lassitu.de> References: <E1N2NcA-0004c4-CE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <200910271902.19618.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20091027104316.dsp7kikkoogo80gw@www.goldsword.com> <200910281112.06300.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <493EE416-62CE-4EA4-81A7-8F802789D5DD@lassitu.de>
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Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 28.10.2009 um 01:41 schrieb Daniel O'Connor: > >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, jfarmer@goldsword.com wrote: >>> Check the archives for stable@ and fs@. I believe that there was a >>> thread not that long ago detailing exactly how to do that. IIRC, >>> while it took a bit of work, it wasn't difficult. >> Hmm do you have any idea what the subject was? I'm having trouble >> finding it :( > > If you still need it, it was "ZFS pool corrupted on upgrade of -current (probably sata renaming)" on -current back in July. You probably need to read the full thread, and there are some caveats, but it's sometimes possible to glabel each device/partion, and zpool replace the original device/partition with the labelled one online. It's here.. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009440.html Quote... > On Wed Jul 15 at 16:22, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote: > Yep. It's as simple as: > > * label all the drives using glabel, while they're still attached to > the pool > * use "zpool replace pool ad4 label/disk01" to replace 1 drive > * wait for it to resilver > * use "zpool replace pool ad6 label/disk02" to replace the next > drive > * repeat the resilver and replace until all the devices are replaced > > This is what I did to one of our servers. Works quite nicely. > > There's no need to detach anything. I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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