[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Volker A. Brandt]

Hi Reg!


>  FWIW I saw the messages that Nelson posted at the start of this discussion on systems that booted. However, they very likely had relic zfs labels. I've had mysterious "corrupted pools" appear which I was only able to fix by using dd(1) to wipe out the old label.

Recent-ish illumos ZFS versions (and presumably OpenZFS, too) have

  zpool labelclear <device>


Regards -- Volker
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