I'm no expert but I think you need to export a zfs volume before you remove it or it'll complain when you try to import it on another system.
"zfs admin guide pg. 89" zfs export poolName You can do a zfs -f import to import it anyway. Hua-Ying On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Karl Dalen<no-re...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > I'm a new user of ZFS and I have an external USB drive which contains > a ZFS pool with file system. It seems that it does not get auto mounted > when I plug in the drive. I'm running osol-0811. > > How can I manually mount this drive? It has a pool named rpool on it. > Is there any diagnostics commands that can be used to investigate the > contents of the pool or repair a damaged file system ? > > rmformat shows that the physical name of the USB device is: /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 > If I try '# zpool import" I get: > pool: rpool > id: 3765122753259138111 > state: UNAVAIL > status: The pool was last accessed by another system. > action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data. > see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY > config: > rpool UNAVAIL newer version > c4t0d0s0 ONLINE > > I suppose this means that the data is corrupted in some way > although I never observed any write errors when it was created. > This drive was formatted with zfs by the osol-0906 installer. > > Another question is about backward compatibility of ZFS. If I create > a ZFS system under say osol-0906 can I access this system on older > nv builds and Solaris 10 ? > > Thanks > /Karl D > -- > 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