stale zpool: how to rename?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:49:07PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> how can I clear stale traces of old pool?
> 
> [this is on fresh stable/8]
> 
> Now I have:
> 
> root at ogre2:~# zpool import
>   pool: og
>     id: 4146846692207551713
>  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://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
> config:
> 
>         og          UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
>           mirror    UNAVAIL  insufficient replicas
>             da0     UNAVAIL  cannot open
>             da1     UNAVAIL  cannot open
> root at ogre2:~# zpool status
>   pool: o
>  state: ONLINE
>  scrub: none requested
> config:
> 
>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         o           ONLINE       0     0     0
>           mirror    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             da0h    ONLINE       0     0     0
>             da1h    ONLINE       0     0     0
> 
> errors: No known data errors
> root at ogre2:~# zpool import -f og
> cannot import 'og': no such pool or dataset
> root at ogre2:~# zpool destroy og
> cannot open 'og': no such pool

Try using the "id" of the old pool, not the pool name.

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