Degraded zpool cannot detach old/bad drive

[Artem Belevich]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Rumen Telbizov <telbizov at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right. zpool export tank seems to remove the cache file so import has
> nothing to consult so doesn't make any difference.
> I guess my only chance at this point would be to somehow manually edit
> the zpool configuration, via the zpool.cache file or not, and substitute
> mfid with gpt/disk?!
> Is there a way to do this?

I'm not aware of any tools to edit zpool.cache.

What's really puzzling is why GPT labels disappear in the middle of
zpool import. I'm fresh out of ideas why that would happen.

What FreeBSD version are you running. SVN revision of the sources
would be good, but date may also work.

--Artem