> I am curious how admins are dealing with controllers like the Dell Perc 5 and > 6 that can > change the device name on a disk if a disk fails and the machine > reboots. These > controllers are not nicely behaved in that they happily fill in the device > numbers for > the physical drive that is missing. In that case, how can you recover the > zpool that was > on the disk? I understand if the pool was exported, you > can then re-import it. > However, what happens if the machine completely dies and you have no chance > to export the > pool? > > -- > Terry > --
You still can import it, Although you might loose some inflight data that was going in during crash and it can take a while during import to finish transactions, anyway, it will be fine. Yours Markus Kovero _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
