Joubert Nel wrote:
Hi,
If I add an entire disk to a new pool by doing
zpool create, is this
reversible?
I.e. if there was data on that disk (e.g. it was
the sole disk in a zpool
in another system) can I get this back or is zpool
create destructive?
Short answer: you're
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:03:39AM -0700, Joubert Nel wrote:
When I ran zpool create, the pool got created without a warning.
zpool(1M) will diallow creation of the disk if it contains data in
active use (mounted fs, zfs pool, dump device, swap, etc). It will warn
if it contains a recognized
Joubert Nel wrote:
If the device was actually in use on another system, I
would expect that libdiskmgmt would have warned you about
this when you ran zpool create.
AFAIK, libdiskmgmt is not multi-node aware. It does know about local
uses of the disk. Remote uses of the disk, especially those
