Hello Chris, Saturday, November 11, 2006, 9:44:26 AM, you wrote:
CC> On 11/11/06, Rainer Heilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nope. I get "no pools available to import". I think that detaching the drive >> cleared any pool information/headers on the drive, which is why I can't >> figure out a way to get the data/pool back. CC> Did you also export the original pool before you tried this? I CC> believe it was said that you can't import a pool if one of the same CC> name already exists on the system. (Of course, you should pull the CC> other disks as well, or it may not import the right pool.) CC> In any case, I don't think this is expected behavior. It should be CC> possible to remove part of a mirror or simply pull a disk without CC> affecting the contents. (Assuming that the pool is a single N-way CC> mirror vdev.) CC> The manual page for zpool offline indicates that no further attempts CC> are made to read or write the device, so the data should still be CC> there. While it does not elaborate on the result of a zpool detach, I CC> would expect it to behave the same way, by leaving the data intact. He did use detach not offline. Also I'm not sure offline works the way you describe (but I guess it does). If it does 'zpool import' should show a pool to import however I'm not sure if there won't be a problem with pool id (not pool name). -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
