Eric Schrock wrote:
> Or just let ZFS work its magic ;-)
>   

Oh, I didn't realize that `zpool create` could be fed vdevs that didn't 
exist in /dev/dsk/ - and, as a bonus, it also creates the /dev/dsk/ links!

# zpool create -f tank raidz2 c3t0d0 c3t4d0 c4t0d0 c4t4d0 c5t0d0 c5t4d0z
# ls -l /dev/dsk/ | grep ":wd$"
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t0d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t1d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t2d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t3d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t4d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          78 Dec 27 17:32 c3t5d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],1/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          76 Dec 28 12:45 c4t0d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          76 Dec 27 22:38 c4t1d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          76 Dec 27 22:38 c4t4d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          76 Dec 28 12:45 c5t0d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          76 Dec 28 12:45 c5t4d0 -> 
../../devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1033,[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]/pci11ab,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:wd



Thanks for the pointer!

Kent



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