Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:54:49 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Subject: Re: Attach a device to an unimported pool? Message-ID: <op.x135lnzkkndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> In-Reply-To: <55ADCFFD.8090000@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <55ADA043.5060002@FreeBSD.org> <55ADCFFD.8090000@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 06:52:13 +0200, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 2015/07/21 02:28, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> I have an unimportable zpool which is telling me to 'attach the missing >> devices and try again' >> >> The missing devices are a mirrored pair for logs -- they exist and >> should be readily attachable, but it seems I cannot attach devices to an >> un-imported pool, and I can't import the pool with out attaching the >> devices. >> >> Any clues as to how to unfuck this system most gratefully received. > > Following myself up, because I missed out providing enough useful > information. > > This is a 10.1-RELEASE machine -- I was upgrading it from p5 to p14 and > changing the vfs.zfs.arc_max setting: nothing that should have been > anything other than routine. However the machine wouldn't reboot > properly, and I have eventually ended up with it booted up from a USB > stick trying to repair it's boot pool. > > I've tried: > > zpool import -R /mnt zroot > zpool import -f -R /mnt zroot > zpool import -f -F -R /mnt zroot > zpool import -f -m /mnt zroot > > plus variations on zpool attach ... and zpool replace ... none of which > has succeeded. > > Matthew > > I did not try, but can you import the pool readonly? Ronald.
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