--As of January 17, 2012 5:19:15 AM +0100, Fritz Wuehler is alleged to have
said:
zfs is famous for fucking itself like this. the only totally safe way is
to dd the drive since nailing the label doesn't clear out stuff at the
far end of the filesystem that can really ruin your day. don't ask me
I agree if you move drives and a particular zfs has not seen them before - and
there is a zfs label at the end things can go pear shaped - however…
if you blast just the end of the drive it should be fine.
RB
Ps. Maybe I;ll title a book fun with zfs and glabel or cheap thrills with zfs,
glabe
> I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my
> laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and restarted. Got
> much further the next time, however...
>
> There is a zombie copy of the old zpool sitting around interfering with
> things. 'zpool import' lis
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
> There is a zombie copy of the old zpool sitting around interfering with
> things. 'zpool import' lists it, but it can't import it because the disks
> don't actually exist. 'zpool destroy' can't delete it, because it's not
> imported. ('No s
most likely a ifs "label" on the disk from before that you need to get rid of
before doing the install.
RB
On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
>
> I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my
> laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and r
I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my
laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and restarted. Got
much further the next time, however...
There is a zombie copy of the old zpool sitting around interfering with
things. 'zpool import' lists it, bu
