How do I clear this problem? :-)

[krad]

If you are not root on zfs and get real stuck, go into single user mode,
export all your pools (valid ones), then delete the zpool.cache, then just
reimport your valid pools


On 4 August 2013 19:33, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:

> 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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