FreeBSD 7.3-Stable / GEOM issue with ZFS attach/replace & zvol's...

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:11:49PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 08 July 2010 21:20 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >>At the moment this is stopping me from replacing a failing drive which
> >>is  part of a zpool mirror set :(
> >
> >This was fixed in r200126, but wasn't MFCed to 7. I recommend upgrading
> >to 8.1 once it is released.
> 
> Thanks - I did do quite a bit of digging around for similar issues, but 
> missed it'd been fixed (I guess it's the usual problem of working out the 
> right things to lookup)...
> 
> I might leap before 8.1 is released (appears to be RC2 atm) - as I really 
> need to replace the drive...

If you can turn off ZVOLs for a moment and do the replacement, you could
do the following:

	# zfs volfini

This command will removed all ZVOLs from /dev/ and they won't be a
problem during replace. Once you're done just call:

	# zfs volinit

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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