when I remove a separate zil disk from a pool, the pool continues to function, logging synchronous writes to the disks in the pool. Status shows that the log disk has been removed, and everything seems to work fine until I export the pool. After the pool has been exported (long after the log disk was removed and gigabytes of synchronous writes were performed successfully), I am no longer able to import the pool. I get an error stating that a pool device cannot be found, and importing the pool cannot succeed until the missing device (the separate zil log disk) is replaced in the system. There is a bug filed by Neil Perrin: 6574286 "removing a slog doesn''t work" regading the problem of not being able to remove a separate zil device from a pool, but no detail on the ramifications of just taking the device out of the JBOD. Taking it out does not impact the immediate function of the pool, but the inability to re-import it after this event is a significant issue. Has anyone found a workaround for this problem ? I have data in a pool that I cannot import because the separate zil is no longer available to me. This message posted from opensolaris.org