[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool mirror disk problems when moved to different slot

[Toomas Soome]

> On 6. Aug 2021, at 12:44, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> 
> On 8/6/21 11:33 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6. Aug 2021, at 12:19, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> i just added a new disk to my system, which i put into the slot where a
>>> mirror disk of my rpool resided.
>>> 
>>> The mirror disk of my rpool went to a other slot, so the device name was
>>> changed c27t1d0 -> c27t0d0
>>> 
>>> Booting into my OI system, the zpool was found as the first mirror disk
>>> was there,
>>> but the second partition was not found.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is there a chance that the rpool mount procedure could try harder to
>>> find the mirrors, even when moved ??
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes i know this may be a rare case :-/
>>> 
>>> 
>> What does zpool status report?
>> 
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>> 
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> 
> Meanwhile, i detached the 'corrupted' mirror disk partition, attached
> the correct partition - resilver is running...
> 
> zpool status  did report "corrupt data", as the partition ('zpool
> import' used  its name without checking zfs signatures) did not contain
> a zfs dataset.
> 
> 'ZFS' should not have tried it, as there is no zfs signature on that
> disk, in any partition..
> 
> Instead the import should look around for the correct zpool members,
> just like the usual zpool import does…
> 

It normally does scan all available devices. Or at least, should do that… 

rgds,
toomas