Hi, This comes up in my mind. Has anyone else observed that illumos has difficulty detecting ZFS pools when they reside on a partition rather than occupying the entire disk?
On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM Atiq Rahman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > Thank you for your input. > > > The unqualified import checks every slice/partition on every disk. So it's > > already looking at that partition. If it's not finding the pool, then > > that's the problem you need to look at. > > I have an SSD with two partitions: > 1. An EFI System Partition (512MB) > 2. A ZFS pool occupying the remainder of the disk > > Neither ZFS nor OpenZFS reports any errors on this pool. However, when I try > to import the pool using `zpool import` or with the `-d /dev/sdX` option (as > translated to illumos device naming), the pool is not detected. > > Interestingly, on OpenZFS, if I specify `-d /dev/sdX2`, the pool imports > successfully. That aside, this is pretty new and I have checked there is no > corruption or issue with the pool itself. > > Given this, what could be the underlying cause for illumos/OpenIndiana not > being able to detect or import this pool without explicitly pointing to the > partition? _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
