Hello all, When I started with my old test box (the 6-disk raidz2 pool), I had first created the pool on partitions (i.e. c7t1d0p0 or physical paths like /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ec@1f,2/disk@1,0:q), but I've soon destroyed it and recreated (with the same name "pool") in slices (i.e. c7t0d0s0 or /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ec@1f,2/disk@1,0:a) with a tailing 8Mb slice (whole-disk ZFS layout). The disks currently carry the format EFI, and the zpool command finds the correct pool by name.
However, whenever I use zdb, it finds leftovers of my original test as labels number 2 and 3 (numbers 0 and 1 are "failed to unpack"), so zdb refuses to use my "pool" by name and I have to provide the GUID. Is it easy to find out at which locations ZDB finds these labels so I could zero them out and let zdb use the correct pool by name? Should I assume that "p0" addresses the while disk and wipe the last 512K of the disk size (which are now in the reserved 8Mb partition)? BTW, what role does this 8Mb piece play? I might guess it helps to replace disks by new ones with similar (not exact) sizes and this slice on the new disk would shrink or expand to cover up the HDD size discrepancy. But I haven't done any replacements so far which would prove or disprove this ;) Thanks, //Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
