[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 17.01.21 um 19:59 schrieb Bob Friesenhahn:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Gary Mills wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:56:58AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>> One of my root pool mirror disks (c5t1d0) on an Intel system failed
>>> but it
>>> is currently booted using the other disk (c5t0d0).  This happened to
>>> me many
>>> years before on the same system and I did successfully replace the
>>> disk.
>>
>> The zpool man page should be helpful to you, in particular the `zpool
>> replace' command, if the failed disk is still installed. Otherwise,
>> you may have to use a different command or a combination of commands.
>>
>> The disk may not need to be initialized with fdisk or format or some
>> other command if you are using the whole disk.  You can tell that from
>> `zpool status'.  If you are using slices, you will need to use format
>> to make it the same as the other disk.
>
> I used part of some old notes from yourself at
> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/How+to+migrate+the+root+pool and
> manually updated the Solaris partition table to look more like the
> original one and also the partition tables on OmniOS systems I have
> here.  However, the partition table type is of type Solaris ('SMI')
> whereas the partition table type of the peer existing disk is 'EFI'.
> After configuring the Solaris partitions, I executed 'label' at which
> time it asked me if I wanted to use a SMI or EFI label.  This happened:
>
> partition> label
> [0] SMI Label
> [1] EFI Label
> Specify Label type[0]: 1
> Warning: This disk has an SMI label. Changing to EFI label will erase all
> current partitions.
> Continue? n
> partition> label
> [0] SMI Label
> [1] EFI Label
> Specify Label type[0]:
> Ready to label disk, continue? y
>
> So I am using the SMI label type rather than the EFI label type.
>
> The above does not occur in your Wiki article so it must be a more
> modern 'fdisk' feature.
>
> It is my understanding that the partitioning/format of the existing
> disk came from a from-scratch OpenIndiana Hipster install done perhaps
> a year ago.  If this EFI partitioning is what is done now, the Wiki
> does not seem to reflect it.
>
> The new disk is being resilvered into the root pool now.
>
> If I have made a mistake, I can remove the device from the pool and
> try again.
>
> FYI: It appears that the Wiki server must be down again.
>
> Bob
The wiki still works for me.

Andreas