Hi, this is more a question of interest and no loss of data is connected. Hence skip if you don't have time or fun ;)
I played around with zfs in virtualbox to learn. I used 4 virtual disks: zfsD1, zfsD2, zfsD3 & zfsD4 Main reason was how to learn to make a mirrored pool t1 (zfsD1 and zfsD2), transport one disk and recreate the pool on second PC . All worked fine and I now like zfs. I mention it here, to make you aware that my disks contain old zfs pool data. Realizing /dev/sdX is mixing up when removing HDs in virtualbox. I wanted to use labels (names?) that I can memorize rather than UUIDs. I used parted to give the partitions the zfsDX names. I were able to create a new pool u1 and attach the disk by label. Sorry I used this confusing command sequence: #zpool create u1 /dev/sdb #zpool export u1 #zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-partlabel -aN -f #zpool status shows: NAME STATE u1 ONLINE zfsD1 ONLINE The interesting happened when I wanted to attach the second disk # zpool attach u1 /dev/disk/py-partlabel/zfsD1 /dev/disk/by-partlabel/zfsD2 invalid vdev spcification use '-f' to overrid the following errors: /dev/disk/by-partlabel/zfsD2 is part of exported pool 't1' Now I became curios and tried to reimport that disk. But failed. #zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-partlabel/zfsD2 t1 cannot open '/dev/sdc1': Not a directory cannot import 't1': no such pool available I also tried without luck: zpool import - didn' list anything zpool import -a - didn't work zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -aN -f - t1 not shown at zpool status My guess is, if I manage to create a pool t1 and then attach the zfsD2 to it as first (and only) disk, it might work. Any comments ? Cheers Zach ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tc7e62464ec389621-M5615fd85e7519d33f4c65699 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
