Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-29 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:02:18PM +0100, Colin Raven wrote: > Are there any negative consequences as a result of a force import? I mean > STUNT; "Sudden Totally Unexpected and Nasty Things" > -Me If the pool is not in use, no. It's a safety check to avoid problems that can easily crop up when st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Colin Raven
Are there any negative consequences as a result of a force import? I mean STUNT; "Sudden Totally Unexpected and Nasty Things" -Me On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 17:55, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > opensolaris has a newer version of ZFS than Solaris. What you have is > a pool that was not marked as exporte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Also, if you don't care about the existing pool and want to create a new pool one the same devices, you can go ahead and do so. The format command will list the storage devices available to you. -- Sriram On 12/27/09, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > opensolaris has a newer version of ZFS than Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
opensolaris has a newer version of ZFS than Solaris. What you have is a pool that was not marked as exported for use on a different OS install. Simply force import the pool using zpool import -f -- Sriram On 12/27/09, Havard Kruger wrote: > Hi, in the process of building a new fileserver and I'

[zfs-discuss] Can I destroy a Zpool without importing it?

2009-12-27 Thread Havard Kruger
Hi, in the process of building a new fileserver and I'm currently playing around with various operating systems, I created a pool in Solaris, before I decided to try OpenSolaris aswell, so I installed OpenSolaris 20009.06, but I forgot to destroy the pool I created in Solaris, so now I can't imp