I am on different hardware, thus I cannot restore the drive configuration 
exactly.

I have been able to shuffle and re-import disks in the past with different 
zpools, even without an export. Does anybody have more experience with what 
scenarios cause a failure to import with the disks being re-ordered?

-Galen

On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:40 PM, James Risner wrote:

> Can you post a "zpool import -f" for us to see?
> 
> One thing I ran into recently is that if the drives arrangement was changed 
> (like drives swapped) it can't recover.  I moved an 8 drive array recently, 
> and didn't worry about the order of the drives.  It could not be mounted 
> without reordering the drives the same as they were in the original system.
> 
> You can use zdb -l on each drive to see where they used to be.  Which then 
> allows you to swap out drives until you have it matching again.
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