zfs drive replacement issues

[Todd Wasson]

> Hello,
> You could try exporting and importing the pool with three disks.
> Then make sure the "new" drive isn't part of any zpool (low-level format?).
> Then try a "replace" again.
> Have fun!
> 


Hi Mark, I was about to try this, but I just tried putting the "old" (damaged) drive back in the pool and detaching the "new" drive from the pool, which I've tried before, but for some reason this time it succeeded.  I was then able to "zpool offline" the old drive, physically replace it with the new one, and "zpool replace" the old one with the new one.  It just finished successfully resilvering, and apparently everything is working well.  I'm going to initiate a scrub to be sure that everything is alright, but I'm fairly sure that the problem is solved.  I didn't do anything that I hadn't already tried, so I don't know why it worked this time, but I'm not complaining.  Thanks to everyone for your help; at the very least, the idea of putting the original drive back into the machine and mucking around with it led me in the right direction.  Next time I'll be sure to issue an offline command before replacing a device!

Thanks again.


Todd