your suggestion worked just fine -- I did the dd on the target disk, then was able to do the 'zpool replace'.
requested files coming shortly (I'm attaching them after I've already successfully run 'zpool replace', btw). thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss