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. > -- > 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