[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need Help Fixing Zpool misconfiguration

[Till Wegmüller]

Huh odd

Reading the Blog post associated with the Delphix device_removal feature
that limitation does not make that much sense, since it is a straight up
copy on a lov level block wise. Why would a different type of device
make that approach not working.

Greetings
Till

On 11/22/18 06:41 PM, Guenther Alka wrote:
> Only Solaris can remove a basic vdev from a pool with a raid-Z. Open-ZFS
> cannot (yet) . If you cannot destroy/ recreate the pool you can only add
> a disk to the basic vdev to make it a mirror (add redundancy)
> 
> Gea
> 
> 
> Am 22.11.2018 um 18:06 schrieb Till Wegmüller:
>> Hello
>>
>> I had a slight mishap while configuring a Zpool.
>>
>> I wanted to re-add a spare disk again after we had replaced it and made
>> a typo. Adding the device instead as top-level vdev.
>>
>> aka typed:
>> zpool add $POOL $DEVICE
>> instead of
>> zpool add $POOL spare $DEVICE
>>
>> Turns out even with top-level device_removal feature turned on I cannot
>> fix that typo.
>>
>> If I type
>> zpool remove $POOL $DEVICE
>> I get
>> cannot remove $DEVICE: invalid config; all top-level vdevs must have the
>> same sector size and not be raidz.
>>
>> Which is true because the rest of the Pool is part of a raidz2.
>>
>> And of course as murphy wants it I cannot just ditch that pool beacause
>> it is too big to fit that data anywhere.
>>
>> While I would love for zpool remove to be able to remove the DEVICE in
>> the future I wanted to ask you guys If you know a good Idea on how to
>> Workaround that problem in the meantime.
>>
>> I really dont like having this single point of failure in the pool.
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>> Thanks and Greetings
>> Till
>>
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