re-adding a replacement into a pool of mirrors

[Wes Morgan]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Randy Bush wrote:

>>>> It might be worth zeroing the whole disk with dd if=/dev/zero
>>>> of=/dev/da1s3 bs=64k, and then see if you can re-attach.
>>> went single luser, zapped the drive, took a nap, then
>>>    zpool attach tank da0s3 da1s3
>>> worked.  so geom did have it!
>> I'm not sure geom had it more than the slice had a zfs label on it and as
>> a foot-shooting precaution it did not want to let you add a device
>> from another pool to the existing one. Just a guess, though. Was the
>> replacement drive brand new?
>
> yep, brand new.


Perhaps it was pre-formatted as fat32?