Kyle McDonald wrote: > D. Eckert wrote: > >> too many words wasted, but not a single word, how to restore the data. >> >> I have read the man pages carefully. But again: there's nothing said, that >> on USB drives zfs umount pool is not allowed. >> >> > It is allowed. But it's not enough. You need to read both the 'zpool ' > and 'zfs' manpages. the 'zpool' manpage will tell you that the way to > move the 'whole pool' to another machine is to run 'zpool export > <poolname>'. The 'zpool export' will actually run the 'zfs umount' for > you, though it's not a problem if it's already been done. > > Note, this isn't USB specific, you won't see anything in the docs about > USB. This condition applies to SCSI and others too. You need to export > the pool to move it to another machine. If the machine crashed before > you could export it, 'zpool import -f' on the new machine can help > import it anyway. > > With USB, there are probably other commands you'll also need to use to > notify Solaris that you are going to unplug the drive, Just like the > 'Safely remove hardware' tool on windows. Or you need to remove it only > when the system is shut down. These commands will be documented > somewhere else, not in the ZFS docs because they don't apply to just ZFS. >
That would be cfgadm(1M). It's also used for hot-swapable SATA drives (and probably other things). -- Andrew _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
