Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:31:30PM -0700, Darren Dunham wrote: > > It certainly changes some semantics... > > In a UFS/VxVM world, I still have filesystems referenced in /etc/vfstab. > I might expect (although have seen counterexamples), that if my VxVM > group doesn't autoimport, then obviously

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:07:40PM -0700, Anton B. Rang wrote: > > And why would we want a pool imported on another host, or not marked > as belonging to this host, to show up as faulted? That seems an odd > use of the word. Unavailable, perhaps, but not faulted. > That's FMA terminology, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import

2006-09-07 Thread Darren Dunham
> And why would we want a pool imported on another host, or not marked > as belonging to this host, to show up as faulted? That seems an odd > use of the word. Unavailable, perhaps, but not faulted. It certainly changes some semantics... In a UFS/VxVM world, I still have filesystems referenced i

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import

2006-09-07 Thread Anton B. Rang
A determined administrator can always get around any checks and cause problems. We should do our very best to prevent data loss, though! This case is particularly bad since simply booting a machine can permanently damage the pool. And why would we want a pool imported on another host, or not mar

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How to destroy a pool wich you can't import

2006-09-06 Thread Robert Milkowski
This could still corrupt the pool. Probably the customer has to write its own tool to import a pool using libzfs and not creating zpool.cache. Eventually just after pool is imported remove zpool.cache - I'm not sure but it should work. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___