zfs bringing a new drive online

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sat Aug 23 11:45:44 UTC 2008


Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:
> one of the drives in my pool got funky.  i put it offline
>
> 2008-07-26.16:23:44 zpool offline -t tank ad6s1
> 2008-07-26.16:24:28 zpool offline tank ad6s1
>
> and then replaced it.  i rebooted so the hw and driver would be happy
> about the drive, and then
>
> # zpool online tank ad6s1
> Bringing device ad6s1 online

The correct command is 'zpool replace tank ad6s1', as explained in the
fine manual.

BTW, it is generally a bad idea to feed ZFS slices instead of whole
disks.

DES
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