Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:46:54 +0000 From: Charlie Mason <charlie.mas@gmail.com> To: David Rawling <djr@pdconsec.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS RAIDZ Controller Disk Order Message-ID: <AANLkTiks19qm5K1P2kgNs-LuTxeRGW9g_jMrwdLqackU@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D1B2EB2.9010002@pdconsec.net> References: <AANLkTikzp42h3aHWvtBrz=o8Z%2B9gf=cv3fiwLzXUTwHG@mail.gmail.com> <4D1B2EB2.9010002@pdconsec.net>
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, David Rawling <djr@pdconsec.net> wrote: > On 29/12/2010 11:08 PM, Charlie Mason wrote: > > Is it perhaps possible to disconnect the disks again, boot the system, and > remove the ZFS pool cache (which location escapes me for the moment). Then > you should be able to import the pool again using the -f switch (force). I > think if you are using the cache, the order matters. If you're importing a > fresh pool, the system simply needs to find enough member disks. > > I'm not a ZFS expert though... Thanks for the info Dave. I managed to find the cache file. On my install its under /boot/zfs/zpool.cache. I have also seen reports of it under /etc/zfs whilst googling (I think that was Solaris though). For safety's sake I backed it up and rebooted the server. Zpool then lost all trace of the old array. Then I used the zpool import command which was able to automatically locate the array then I simply imported it by its name. Magically all is working agian! So I can now get my photos off the old array and on to the new one. Thanks again for the info, its been really useful. Charliehome | help
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