Joubert Nel wrote:
What I meant is that when I do "zpool create" on a disk, the entire
contents of the disk doesn't seem to be overwritten/destroyed. I.e. I
suspect that if I didn't copy any data to this disk, a large portion of
what was on it is potentially recoverable.
If so, is there a tool
> What I meant is that when I do "zpool create" on a disk, the entire
> contents of the disk doesn't seem to be overwritten/destroyed. I.e. I
> suspect that if I didn't copy any data to this disk, a large portion
> of what was on it is potentially recoverable.
Presumably a scavenger program could
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:34:13PM -0700, Joubert Nel wrote:
>
> OK, so if I didn't copy any data to this disk, presumably a large
> portion of what was on the disk previously is theoretically
> recoverable. There is really one file in particular that I'd like to
> recover (it is a cpio backup).
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:03:39AM -0700, Joubert Nel
> wrote:
> >
> > When I ran "zpool create", the pool got created
> without a warning.
>
> zpool(1M) will diallow creation of the disk if it
> contains data in
> active use (mounted fs, zfs pool, dump device, swap,
> etc). It will warn
> if
Richard,
> Joubert Nel wrote:
> >> If the device was actually in use on another
> system, I
> >> would expect that libdiskmgmt would have warned
> you about
> >> this when you ran "zpool create".
>
> AFAIK, libdiskmgmt is not multi-node aware. It does
> know about local
> uses of the disk. Remo
