Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:33:42 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.3-Stable / GEOM issue with ZFS attach/replace & zvol's... Message-ID: <22A923EC87E476006120AEB7@Octa64> In-Reply-To: <20100708202219.GB3093@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <6F0C8FABB57A0A91965413C1@Octa64> <20100708192008.GA3093@garage.freebsd.pl> <5BF2C0C24CA93034DFC79B28@Octa64> <20100708202219.GB3093@garage.freebsd.pl>
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--On 08 July 2010 22:22 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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 Fantastic! - Thanks! - The system is finally re-silvering the ailing drive... I'll try 8.1 tomorrow on the test system I setup, with a view to moving to it in due course... But for now, my pool is saved... It's all backed up (in duplicate) - but it's still hours worth of restore saved, should the worst have happened :-) -Kp
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