Hi Darren, sorry that it took so long before I could answer.
The good thing: I found out what went wrong. What I did: After resizing a Disk on the Storage, solaris recognizes it immediately. Everytime you resize a disk, the EVA storage updates the discription which contains the size. So typing "echo |format" shows promptly the new discription. So that seemed to work fine. But It turned out that "format" doesn't automagically update the amount of cylinders/sectors. So i tried to "auto configure" the disk. When I did that, the first sector of partition 0 changed from sector # 34 to # 256. (which makes label 0 and 1 of zpool unaccessible). The last sector changed to the new end of the disk (which makes label 3 and 4 of the zpool unaccessible). Partition 8 changed accordingly and correctly. If I then relabel the disk the zpool is destroyed. Label 0 and 1 of the zpool are gone and, obviously label 2 and 3 too. What I did to solve it: 1. Changed the size of a disk/LUN on the storage 2. Verified the position of the starting sector of partition 0 3. Did an auto configure 4. Changed starting sector of partition 0 to the formerly starting sector from step #2 5. labeled the disk I then was able to impoort the zpool Do you know why the "auto configure" changes the starting cylinder ? What I also found out is that it did not happen every time. Sometimes the first sector of partition 0 changes, sometimes not. Up to now I can't find any correlation between when and why. Sascha -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
