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 it contains a recognized filesystem (zfs, ufs, etc) that is not currently mounted, but allow you to override it with '-f'. What was previously on the disk? > What is strange, and maybe I'm naive here, is that there was no > "formatting" of this physical disk so I'm optimistic that the data is > still recoverable from it, even though the new pool shadows it. > > Or is this way off mark? You are guaranteed to have lost all data within the vdev label portions of the disk (see on-disk specification from opensolaris.org). How much else you lost depends on how long the device was active in the pool and how much data was written to it. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
