[OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

Michelle Knight michelle at msknight.com
Sat Jun 1 21:01:20 UTC 2013



On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:11:59 -0600
Jan Owoc <jsowoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if it's an option, but these two posts [1],[2] seem to
> think that overwriting the first and last bit of the drive (eg. 2MB)
> should overwrite the ZFS header information. Is this an option, or
> does the SSD have important data on it currently?
> 
> [1] http://techarcana.net/2009/02/19/stubbornly-persistent-zfs-pools/
> [2] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29739

Hi Jan,

Thanks for this.

There's data on it and I'd have to un-do and re-do the jail and
plugins, but it shouldn't be too much hassle.

Michelle.



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