[zfs-discuss] zfs send -R slow

Chris Ridd
2009-01-28T19:50:52Z

On 28 Jan 2009, at 19:40, BJ Quinn wrote:

>>> What about when I pop in the drive to be resilvered, but right
>>> before I add it back to the mirror, will Solaris get upset that I
>>> have two drives both with the same pool name?
>> No, you have to do a manual import.
>
> What you mean is that if Solaris/ZFS detects a drive with an
> identical pool name to a currently mounted pool, that it will safely
> not disrupt the mounted pool and simply not mount the same-named
> pool on the newly inserted drive?
>
> Can I mount a pool "as" another pool name?

Yes: "zpool import oldname newname"

Cheers,

Chris