On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Nilsen, Vidar <vidar.nil...@palantir.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to move disks in a zpool from one SATA-kontroller to another.
> Its 16 disks in 4x4 raidz.
> Just to see if it could be done, I moved one disk from one raidz over to
> the new controller. Server was powered off.
> After booting OS, I get this:
> Zpool status
> (...)
> raidz1     DEGRADED               0     0     0
>             c10t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c10t5d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c10t6d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c10t7d0  FAULTED      0     0     0  corrupted data
> (...)
>
> This looks correct. The c10 controller doesn't have a t7 anymore.
> When I look in /dev/dsk, I can see the "new" disk as c11t0d0, so I try
> this:
> zpool replace storage c10t7d0 c11t0d0
> /dev/dsk/c11t0d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool storage. Please see
> zpool(1M).
>
> So it looks like the data on the disk is intact, since zpool clearly
> thinks the drive is still in the pool, even if its listed with a new
> name..
>
> I've tried several things now (fumbling around in the dark :-)).
> I tried to delete all partitions and relabel the disk, with no other
> results than above.
> I can "online" it, but it goes in "faulted state"..
>
> How can I get zpool to realize that c11t0d0 is really c10t7d0? I don't
> have any important data on this array, but I need to know that it can be
> fixed if something should happen after I've filled it with real data. So
> I don't really want to destroy it, and make a new pool.
> If I need to destroy the data on the one drive, its no problem. I will
> probably still be able to resilver the raidz after "replacing" the
> drive.
> So if there is a way to clear the zpool config from the drive, it will
> solve my problem too.
>
> Both controllers are "raid controllers", and I haven't found any way to
> make them presents the disks directly to opensolaris. So I  have made 1
> volume for each drive (the raid5 implementation is rather slow, and they
> have no battery). Maybe this is the source of the problems?
>
>
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> Vidar
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All you should have had to do was zpool export then zpool import. It
may or may not work still depending on how badly you've mangled the
disk
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