zfs drive replacement issues

[Wes Morgan]

On Sun, 16 May 2010, Todd Wasson wrote:

> > Strange, you should be able to cancel the replacement with detach. There
> > is some kind of DTL issue preventing it. I don't know what it is
> > precisely, but there are known cases where legitimate detach operations
> > are prevented.
> >
> > Try reconnecting the disk you partitioned, leaving the original ad6 still
> > attached, and you should be able to detach the new one.
>
> The problem with that is that I can't have any more than four SATA
> devices in my machine.  I'd have to detach one of the other (good)
> devices in order to do that.  Is that feasible / possible?  I would
> think at that point I would have only two of the four drives in the pool
> and it wouldn't function at all, but if that's not the case I can give
> it a try...

I wouldn't recommend that. What about attaching it externally, via eSATA
or USB?