Exporting ZFS Pool
Pete Erickson
redlamb at redlamb.net
Wed Sep 8 14:36:49 UTC 2010
On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo at cyberleo.net> wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote:
>> I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playing around with different
>> file-backed set ups to determine how I will eventually configure my
>> pools. I've recently come across a problem with exporting a pool, but
>> I'm not sure if it's a bug or just my poor understanding of ZFS. I
>> create a simple pool using 2 128MB files. After exporting the pool, I am
>> unable to import it and the pool is not found by the zpool command. Any
>> advise would be appreciated. I'm currently running 8.1 STABLE.
>
> Curious, neither can I (8.1-RELEASE):
>
> (f84104b2)[cyberleo at akisha /tmp/zp]$ truncate -s 256m d1 d2
> (f84104b2)[cyberleo at akisha /tmp/zp]$ sudo zpool create pool /tmp/zp/d1
> /tmp/zp/d2
> (f84104b2)[cyberleo at akisha /tmp/zp]$ zpool status pool
> pool: pool
> state: ONLINE
> scrub: none requested
> config:
>
> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
> pool ONLINE 0 0 0
> /tmp/zp/d1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> /tmp/zp/d2 ONLINE 0 0 0
>
> errors: No known data errors
> (f84104b2)[cyberleo at akisha /tmp/zp]$ sudo zpool export pool
> (f84104b2)[cyberleo at akisha /tmp/zp]$ sudo zpool import -d .
> pool: pool
> id: 16288839965492350952
> 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-8000-6X
> config:
>
> pool UNAVAIL missing device
> /tmp/zp/d1 ONLINE
>
> Additional devices are known to be part of this pool, though their
> exact configuration cannot be determined.
I have received this error several times as well... it appears to be
very inconsistent. I feel better that I'm not the only one having this
problem.
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