Writing 1 MB of zeros to the raw disk device has always been enough to make sure a drive is treated as new.
My experience is mostly with FreeBSD, but a zpool export .. reboot .. zpool import [-f] cycle has fixed up things for me before. Or zpool clear <device> ..... On Solaris based systems I understand the FMA may need to be examined or cleared. On Jan 8, 2018 9:48 AM, "Till Wegmüller" <toaster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Community > > I am a bit stuck with two disks which don't want to attach to a zpool > after being removed from the pool. > > Story: We have a KVM-VM running OpenIndiana on a Linux host. the Guest > VM has a Zpool with about 10 disks. Passed through from the host via > virtio. After a Host Reboot Linux decided to switch around the disk > names. (Linux likes to to that) Thus the directly passed through disks > to the Guest got switched around aswell. Three devices seem to have been > affected. two of them where hot spares so no data loss. I managed to get > the Zpool working again by replacing the missing disk with c18t0d0. > However c14t0d0 and c15t0d0 do not want to be added as hot spares anymore. > > c15t0d0 is an odd case If I try to access the disk with dd it says No > such device or address. Same with zpool labelclear and friends. > > I tried to wipe every piece kind of zfs label on c14t0d0 including all > partitions with format. If I now try to use format again to start from > scratch It asks me to set the disk type only to tell me that the > partition is in use. Does anybody know how to reset a disk like this > short from dd'ing with zero the whole disk? > > Short from dd'ing the whole disks zero which are 3TB so.... I am out of > ideas? Has anybody an idea what I could do with these disks to be able > to attach them to the zpool ? > > Also everytime I try to do anything with c14t0d0 it says c18t0d0 (notice > the name difference) is already part of the pool. Does anybody know why > zpool thinks c14t0d0 is c18t0d0? > > Thanks in advance and Greetings > Till > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
