Thanks to Kyle, richard and Eric In dealing with this problem, I realize now that I could have saved myself a lot of grief if I had simply used the replace command and substituted some other drive for my flash drive before I removed it
I think that this point is critical for anyone who finds themselves experimenting with separate ZILs ... since a pool will continue to function with no obvious problems after a separate ZIL is removed, it's easy to think that, while the benefit of a separate ZIL is gone, the pool drives have picked up the ZIL function and all is well with the world the sad reality comes when a reboot or export of the pool occurs and there is then no way to re-import the pool without re-inserting the missing ZIL device, and if the missing ZIL device is no longer available, the pool is inaccessible ... it's too late now to do a replace, because the pool must be imported to do anything ... all the data in your pool is perfect, but it's perfectly out of reach ... Bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
