Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..

2008-08-15 Thread Ronald Kuehn
On Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 00:05:17 CEST, Nils Goroll wrote: > Matthias, > > that does not answer my question. > > The question is: Why can't I decide that I consciously want to destroy the > (two way) > mirror (and, yes, do away with any redundancy). > Hi, this pool does not have any re

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..

2008-08-15 Thread Nils Goroll
Matthias, that does not answer my question. The question is: Why can't I decide that I consciously want to destroy the (two way) mirror (and, yes, do away with any redundancy). Nils This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..." ?

2008-08-15 Thread Eric Schrock
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:14:02PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > The fact that it's DEGRADED and not FAULTED indicates that it thinks the > DTL (dirty time logs) for the two sides of the mirrors overlap in some > way, so detaching it would result in loss of data. In the process of > doing this, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..." ?

2008-08-15 Thread Eric Schrock
The fact that it's DEGRADED and not FAULTED indicates that it thinks the DTL (dirty time logs) for the two sides of the mirrors overlap in some way, so detaching it would result in loss of data. In the process of doing this, it seems the error message got lost, and you ended up with something comp

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..." ?

2008-08-15 Thread Mattias Pantzare
2008/8/15 Nils Goroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I thought that this question must have been answered already, but I have > not found any explanations. I'm sorry in advance if this is redundant, but: > > Why exactly doesn't ZFS let me detach a device from a degraded mirror? > > haggis:~# zpool

[zfs-discuss] zpool detach from degraded mirror : why "only applicable to mirror ..." ?

2008-08-15 Thread Nils Goroll
Hi, I thought that this question must have been answered already, but I have not found any explanations. I'm sorry in advance if this is redundant, but: Why exactly doesn't ZFS let me detach a device from a degraded mirror? haggis:~# zpool status pool: rmirror state: DEGRADED status: One or