In message <201110150202.p9f22w2n000...@elvis.arl.psu.edu>, John D Groenveld writes: >I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the >drive, but the drive is definitely functional.
Per Richard Elling, it looks like ZFS is unable to find the requisite labels for importing. John groenv...@acm.org # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 * /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 partition map * * Dimensions: * 4096 bytes/sector * 63 sectors/track * 255 tracks/cylinder * 16065 sectors/cylinder * 45599 cylinders * 45597 accessible cylinders * * Flags: * 1: unmountable * 10: read-only * * Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 0 16065 16064 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 2 00 16065 732483675 732499739 2 5 01 0 732515805 732515804 8 1 01 0 16065 16064 # zpool create -f foobar c1t0d0s0 # zpool status foobar pool: foobar state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM foobar ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors # zdb -l /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 -------------------------------------------- LABEL 0 -------------------------------------------- failed to unpack label 0 -------------------------------------------- LABEL 1 -------------------------------------------- failed to unpack label 1 -------------------------------------------- LABEL 2 -------------------------------------------- failed to unpack label 2 -------------------------------------------- LABEL 3 -------------------------------------------- failed to unpack label 3 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss