After exporting the pool on the two SATA drives, shutting down and disconnecting them, I tried importing the pool on the EIDE drive. I get the message about there being no pools to import. This was done using both "zpool import" and "zpool import <poolname>". So, it does seem that something gets cleared when the drive is detached or offlined.
I agree that, while a non-standard case, the ability to import the pool on such a disk would be a good thing. In my case specifically, the (first) SATA drive did not exhibit errors until I tried to mirror it to the second SATA drive. In fact, I am now wondering if both drives have issues. I cannot clear the read errors from the first drive, and now have write errors (checksum) on the second disk. These checksum errors will not clear even after detaching the first SATA disk from the mirror and performing two scrub operations. Some of my data is now irretrievably corrupted, I believe, though I have no way of knowing which files are affected. The ability to export the pool on the two SATA drives and retrieve the pool on the EIDE drive is the only way to get back to a clean state. I think I'm out of luck. :-( Rainer This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
