Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 17:10 +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: BS>zpool fork -p poolname -n newpoolname [devname ...] BS> (just a concept... ) Could you please create an RFE for it and give us id? I would immediately add a call record to it :) 6493559 need way to c

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Bill, Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 2:31:11 PM, you wrote: BS> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 03:50 -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: >> After examining the source, it clearly wipes the vdev label during a detach. >> I suppose it does this so that the machine can't get confused at a later >> date. >> It wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Casper . Dik
>>zpool fork -p poolname -n newpoolname [devname ...] >> >>Create the new exported pool "newpoolname" from poolname by detaching >>one side from each mirrored vdev, starting with the >>device names listed on the command line. Fails if the pool does not >>consist exclusively of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 03:50 -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: > After examining the source, it clearly wipes the vdev label during a detach. > I suppose it does this so that the machine can't get confused at a later date. > It would be nice if the detach simply renamed something, rather than > destroying

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 17:10 +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > BS>zpool fork -p poolname -n newpoolname [devname ...] > BS> (just a concept... ) > > Could you please create an RFE for it and give us id? > I would immediately add a call record to it :) 6493559 need way to clone a pool by spli

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 11/14/06, Jeremy Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm more inclined to "split" instead of "fork". ;) I prefer "split" too since that's what most of the storage guys are using for mirrors. Still, we are not making any progress on helping Rainer out of his predicaments. -- Just me, Wire ... _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-14 Thread Jeremy Teo
On 11/14/06, Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 03:50 -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: > After examining the source, it clearly wipes the vdev label during a detach. > I suppose it does this so that the machine can't get confused at a later date. > It would be nice if the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-10 Thread eric kustarz
Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings, all. I put myself into a bit of a predicament, and I'm hoping there's a way out. I had a drive (EIDE) in a ZFS mirror die on me. Not a big deal, right? Well, I bought two SATA drives to build a new mirror. Since they were about the same size (I wanted bigger dr

[zfs-discuss] Dead drives and ZFS

2006-11-09 Thread Rainer Heilke
Greetings, all. I put myself into a bit of a predicament, and I'm hoping there's a way out. I had a drive (EIDE) in a ZFS mirror die on me. Not a big deal, right? Well, I bought two SATA drives to build a new mirror. Since they were about the same size (I wanted bigger drives, but they were out