How do I clear this problem? :-)

Karl Denninger karl at denninger.net
Sun Aug 4 18:33:40 UTC 2013


Yes.

On 8/4/2013 12:47 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Denninger" <karl at denninger.net>
>> I do indeed have a pool of the same name; I can rename it of course but
>> then scripts have to be changed.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is get rid of the old entry because it is no
>> longer relevant and causes a collision; I can get around the collision
>> by using the UID of the pool on the mount when done manually, but that
>> particular pool's devices are never coming back and every time an import
>> is run the console complains about the missing device entries that
>> cannot be probed.
>>
>> This is development box and thus I CAN wipe it to get rid of this, but
>> if it happens on a production machine I'd like to know how to clear the
>> problem.  I understand that by doing so I irretrievably destroy the
>> ability to get to the pool in the future but in this particular case the
>> disks in question have been hard-overwritten with other data so that's
>> already a fact irrespective of what the system thinks.
>
> Sorry karl I still don't quite understand what you mean by "old entry"
> I'm guessing your seeing an old cached entry when you run "zpool import"
>
> Is that the case?
>
>    Regards
>    Steve
>
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