Greetings All, I can''t believe it didn''t figure this out sooner. First of all, a big thank you to everyone who gave me advice and suggestions, especially Richard. The problem was with the -d switch. When importing a pool if you specify -d and a path it ONLY looks there. So if I run: # zpool import -d /var/zfs-log/ tank It won''t look for devices in /dev/dsk Consequently running without -d /var/zfs-log/ it won''t find the log device. Here is the command that worked: # zpool import -d /var/zfs-log -d /dev/dsk tank And to make sure that this doesn''t happen again (I have learned my lesson this time) I have ordered two small SSD drives to put in a mirrored config for the log device. Thanks again to everyone and now I will get some worry-free sleep :) Andrew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100708/c0f7f2dd/attachment.html>