On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, David Rawling <d...@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. Charlie _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"