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
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