Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:37:00 -0700 From: Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@gmail.com> To: Andy Young <ayoung@mosaicarchive.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recreating a ZFS pool from existing disks? Message-ID: <949F13D2-F847-4AF4-AC2F-EACD3B735CC8@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHMRaQeJEh4_H8HpoRBTQt8-37e8jmv-5aVZ6mYbGdKOsLftoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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. > > 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"home | help
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