I moved my pool to another box

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papelboyl1

I moved my pool to another box last night. I rebuilt my pool on my old file server. I copied over the files I backed up to it after creating the pool. And then exported the pool after I was done copying and shut down the PC.

When I created the pool, it was using ada1 to ada4. When I moved it to the new box (HP N40L), it was using ada0 to ada3 and using the HDD caddies. I inserted the drives one by one to see if they appeared in sequence and this appears to be the case.

When I tried [cmd=]# zpool import storage[/cmd] it said it cannot find my pool and an error message saying
Code: 
cannot open /dev/dsk
Running [cmd=]zpool import[/cmd] shows nothing and again the
Code: 
cannot open /dev/dsk
error.

According to this Oracle document (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gbchy.html) I'm reading, ZFS should be able to see my pool EVEN if the drives are not in sequence.

I've searched the net and this forum but came up empty. Is there a way of importing the pool into the new PC?

Thank you. :)
 
Try this way:
# zpool import -d /dev storage


The /dev/dsk error should be fixed in a recent 9-STABLE and the import should default to searching /dev for the devices.
 
kpa said:
Try this way:
# zpool import -d /dev storage


The /dev/dsk error should be fixed in a recent 9-STABLE and the import should default to searching /dev for the devices.
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That worked! Thank you!

The new box was just set up yesterday so the source files I got from cvsup (using 9-stable) should be current as of yesterday. :)
 
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