On Mon 2010-12-06 (13:07), Gareth de Vaux wrote: > 'zpool replace' also only works if you physically swap out a disk > at the same port, or replace disk1 with disk2 online. 'zpool remove' > and 'zpool detach' don't remove devices from a raidz. > > So I can recover an array if I have an extra disk to play with, > to use temporarily or to swap out with. If I don't and a disk is > giving trouble I can't drop it from the array, try to do something > with it, and reinsert it.
As the ZFS guys point out, you can replace the same disk out if you zero both its EFI labels - about 1MB at the beginning and end of the disk. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
