On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 05:44:34PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > My zfs machine has croaked to the point that it just quits after some > 10 15 minutes of uptime. No interesting logs or messages what so > ever. At least not that I've found. It just quietly quits. > > I'm not interested in dinking around with this setup... its well > ready for upgrade. > > What I'd like to do is during one or two of those 15 minutes of > uptime, set things up so that when I do get the replace setup, I can > just attache those disks and import the pools. > > It may be complicated by rpool which also has some keeper data stored > on it.
By all means export a data pool if you can/like. You won't be able to export rpool while booted off it, but that won't matter. Attach it to your new machines, and import -f with a new name (so as not to conflict with the new rpool). It may be easier to do this attach after boot, to avoid potential confusion by the bootloader as to which rpool to use. If hotplugging is inconvenient, you could boot the old machine from CD, and import -f the rpool with a new name, then export it, before moving the disks. This will then be the autodetected name on the new machine. -- Dan.
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