[OpenIndiana-discuss] System Panics after deleting zvol

[matt at focusedmobile.com]

Are you able to create a pool on another disk? If so, then you could 
try
to create a new zvol on the new pool and copy over the contents from 
the
old zvol using 'dd'. Then you could try to share out the LU from the 
new
pool.

- George

George,

   Yeah I went out and bought a 3TB disk with the intention of backing 
up the data once I was able to get in there, I know early on after 
setting up the zpool that I wanted to turn off deduplication since I 
didn't like the performance impact I was seeing in testing. Since I 
created the zvol to be shared via iSCSI as a block level device to a 
windows system will dd still be able to copy the data.. need to look up 
the dd command... I'm going to add the new drive along with another to a 
new pool and do what you suggested.  Any guidance on using the dd 
command?

Thanks,
Matt

Matt