Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:57:54 -0400 From: Andy Young <ayoung@mosaicarchive.com> To: Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recreating a ZFS pool from existing disks? Message-ID: <CAHMRaQfWW0%2BR-2cA1ZoPgt5cMg1V_f4qwaQ0eqACUJj=ZDUxeg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <949F13D2-F847-4AF4-AC2F-EACD3B735CC8@gmail.com> References: <CAHMRaQeJEh4_H8HpoRBTQt8-37e8jmv-5aVZ6mYbGdKOsLftoQ@mail.gmail.com> <949F13D2-F847-4AF4-AC2F-EACD3B735CC8@gmail.com>
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Thanks Steven! That was way too easy. I avoided import, assuming I had to have exported it to begin with. Andy On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Steven Schlansker < stevenschlansker@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > Is there a way to recreate a zpool directly from the disks? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Andrew Young > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Andrew Young Mosaic Storage Systems, Inc http://www.mosaicarchive.com/ Follow us on: Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MosaicArchive>, Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/MosaicArchive>; , Google Plus<https://plus.google.com/b/102077382489657821832/https://plus.google.com/b/104681960235222388167/104681960235222388167/posts>; , Pinterest <http://pinterest.com/mosaicarchive/>;
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