James Carlson wrote: > Aldo Bacchiocchi writes: >> I am new to the ZFS scene and am very close to purchasing hardware >> to support my home storage needs and will be using opensolars and >> zfs. I plan on keeping the Operationg System and Data Storge needs >> in different pools, and will follow the best practices guide >> closely. I've read that I can move my disks using the Zpool export >> feature. However, what if the motherboard or controller fails and >> I need to move my data to another machine. >> >> How would I import the pool onto another machine if a zpool export >> could not have been done because of, say, a motherboard failure. I >> think I rmember seeing it can be done even without the export? > > That's true. It "just works." The export step is needed just to > remove that pool from the previous machine.
zpool export removes a pool cleanly, but you can still import a pool that was not exported. You should only be doing this if you are absolutely sure the pool is not being used by any other system. The command to use would be "zpool import -f". See the zpool(1M) man page. Haik _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
