Perhaps this is being tracked as 6538021? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6538021 -- richard
Bill Moloney wrote: > This is a re-post of this issue ... I didn't get any replies to the previous > post of 12/27 ... I'm hoping someone is back from holiday > who may have some insight into this problem ... Bill > > when I remove a separate zil disk from a pool, the pool continues to function, > logging synchronous writes to the disks in the pool. Status shows that the log > disk has been removed, and everything seems to work fine until I export the > pool. > > After the pool has been exported (long after the log disk was removed > and gigabytes of synchronous writes were performed successfully), > I am no longer able to > import the pool. I get an error stating that a pool device cannot be found, > and importing the pool cannot succeed until the missing device (the separate > zil log disk) is replaced in the system. > > There is a bug filed by Neil Perrin: > 6574286 "removing a slog doesn't work" > regading the problem of not being able to remove a separate zil device from > a pool, but no detail on the ramifications of just taking the device out of > the JBOD. > > Taking it out does not impact the immediate function of the pool, > but the inability to re-import it after this event is a significant issue. > Has > anyone found a workaround for this problem ? I have data in a pool that > I cannot import because the separate zil is no longer available to me. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
