zfs bringing a new drive online

[Randy Bush]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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.

<doh>  thanks.  read and reread man pages, not wikis.

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

i have four drives,
  o two with gmirrored boot/root slices and the second slice for zfs
  o two zpooled disks
so slicing was the mode of the day.

maybe i need to rethink this?

randy