From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 06:32:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B104106564A for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:32:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266028FC0C for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so8257291iwn.13 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:32:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=imWfdLtjgyXhIIhrbGD+5K1yxTJw9UjRApHjY5Pd3cI=; b=VKjy7Z5kmI4V6iOCGCRJcx88WvMO4khHEA11cIKkrqgN2/AorEysTjXMyxRQBEdN1/ u5HYBrzK2zCaMj/3uS0kT6hWtQItY6l4gfRJ7vOXFOUyEIrEEHo5/5vScZJs+88WioTm REvi2nK5dicTCLHFwaL5tPAwFeqlraxWH28cU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EjRr2wi096JxMU5Ruy4dwY9IQvoF4t4hTjnwzJq2owl9b58GPocTK9sbWwmqnCRX+y VvT5CK8hZe7dnOdzUZrbPbaujv3SaUJ0XCOqvs9V20adMaaBITUHlWTUwvJ5SjW67BT8 GPKQPTcBAQhIA60AYh/GZ7DMsLMWbhbl+S81w= Received: by 10.231.29.33 with SMTP id o33mr6485476ibc.164.1279693976401; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local (adsl-99-181-133-55.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.181.133.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm28411890ibb.14.2010.07.20.23.32.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Message-ID: <4C469495.50506@dataix.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:32:53 -0400 From: jhell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100718 Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Boyd References: <4C4504DF.30602@langille.org> <578438.38753.qm@web50502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=89D8547E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alan bryan , freebsd-stable , Dan Langille Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jhell@opensolaris.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:32:57 -0000 On 07/21/2010 02:14, Joshua Boyd wrote: > [root@foghornleghorn ~]# zpool replace tank da0 label/disk01 > cannot open 'label/disk01': no such GEOM provider > must be a full path or shorthand device name Of course you cant. You have labeled a disk that is already in use so in turn the label should never appear in dev/label/*. If you tried to re-silver the same disk that was already in use I would think if it could be done that the result would be of inconsistent data and write errors all over the place. Regards, -- jhell,v