On 23/09/2010 11:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Ok, that doesn't seem to have worked so well ... >> >> I took one of the drives offline, rebooted and it just hangs at the >> splash screen after prompting for which BE to boot into. >> It gets to >> hostname: blah >> and just sits there. > > > When you say "offline", did you: > > - remove the drive physically? > - or did you zfs detach it? > - or both?
zpool offline rpool <drive> It's plugged back in now (I'm trying all sorts of things!) > In order to remove half of the mirror I suggest that you: > > > split the mirror (if your ZFS is recent enough; seems to be > supported since 131) > [ make sure you remove /etc/zfs/zpool.cache from the > split half of the mirror. ] > or > detach > > > only then remove the disk. > > Depending on the hardware it may try to find the missing disk and this > may take some time. "some time" being a minute, an hour? How long should I wait before giving in and trying something else? > > You can boot with the debugger and/or -v to find out was is going on. How is this done on a PC? On SPARC I'd just have said 'boot -s" or whatever the arguments are for that these days, but x86 PC's? Thanks Casper (I remember you from the 1990's and your early Solaris 2.x FAQ!) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
