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 shared with other OSes, is a difficult problem to solve where there are no standards. Reason #84612 why I hate SANs.
When I ran "zpool create", the pool got created without a warning.
If the device was not currently in use, why wouldn't it proceed?
What is strange, and maybe I'm naive here, is that there was no "formatting" of this physical disk so I'm optimistic that the data is still recoverable from it, even though the new pool shadows it. Or is this way off mark?
If you define formatting as writing pertinent information to the disk such that ZFS works, then it was formatted. The uberblock and its replicas only take a few iops. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
