whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

[Daniel O'Connor]

Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 28.10.2009 um 01:41 schrieb Daniel O'Connor:
> 
>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, jfarmer at goldsword.com wrote:
>>> Check the archives for stable@ and fs at .  I believe that there was a  
>>> thread not that long ago detailing exactly how to do that.  IIRC,  
>>> while it took a bit of work, it wasn't difficult.
>> Hmm do you have any idea what the subject was? I'm having trouble 
>> finding it :(
> 
> If you still need it, it was "ZFS pool corrupted on upgrade of -current (probably sata  renaming)" on -current back in July.  You probably need to read the full thread, and there are some caveats, but it's sometimes possible to glabel each device/partion, and zpool replace the original device/partition with the labelled one online.

It's here..
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009440.html

Quote...
 > On Wed Jul 15 at 16:22, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Yep.  It's as simple as:
 >
 >   * label all the drives using glabel, while they're still attached to
 > the pool
 >   * use "zpool replace pool ad4 label/disk01" to replace 1 drive
 >   * wait for it to resilver
 >   * use "zpool replace pool ad6 label/disk02" to replace the next
 > drive
 >   * repeat the resilver and replace until all the devices are replaced
 >
 > This is what I did to one of our servers.  Works quite nicely.
 >
 > There's no need to detach anything.

I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes.

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