How do I clear this problem? :-)

[Steven Hartland]

Might sound silly but what are you actually trying to achieve?

Are you trying to create a new pool of the same name?

Does ZFS still think it has the pool loaded via zpool status
and your trying to clear that?

....

    Regards
    Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Denninger" <karl at denninger.net>
To: <freebsd-fs at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:19 PM
Subject: How do I clear this problem? :-)


> Development system here where I've been screwing around with ZFS and ZPOOL.
> 
> I have a deprecated mirror that cannot be imported (the disks used for
> it were wiped and re-used); however, an attempt to destroy the pool
> fails because it's not mounted, and I can't find a command to clear the
> cache data that ZPOOL is using to find it.
> 
> [root at dbms2 /]# zpool import
>   pool: zstore
>     id: 4828844235736846012
>  state: UNAVAIL
> status: One or more devices are missing from the system.
> action: The pool cannot be imported. Attach the missing
>        devices and try again.
>   see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
> config:
> 
>        zstore                    UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
>          mirror-0                UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
>            6822277834587078071   UNAVAIL  cannot open
>            17152979047208821543  UNAVAIL  cannot open
>          mirror-1                UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
>            9208768479824103717   UNAVAIL  cannot open
>            2616541439243568493   UNAVAIL  cannot open
> 
> Correct, none of the devices can be found (the system bitches loudly on
> the console about this, incidentally.)
> 
> [root at dbms2 /]# zpool destroy zstore
> cannot open 'zstore': no such pool
> [root at dbms2 /]# zpool destroy 4828844235736846012
> cannot open '4828844235736846012': name must begin with a letter
> [root at dbms2 /]#
> 
> Attempts to drop the devices in the mirror (to take it apart
> "piecemeal") also fail.
> 
> How do I clear this deprecated entry that cannot be brought back
> online?  I can't completely clear EVERYTHING related to ZFS because
> there is another pool that is current in-service and working.
> 
> I can't find anything in the man pages that addresses this......
> 
> -- 
> Karl Denninger
> karl at denninger.net
> /Cuda Systems LLC/
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