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Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS and fibre channel issues

Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] ZFS and fibre channel issues
From: Jeff Cheeney
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 19:45:10 -0600
The ZFS crew might be better to answer this question. (CC'd here)

       --jc

William Yang wrote:
> I am having issues creating a zpool using entire disks with a fibre 
> channel array.  The array is a Dell PowerVault 660F.
> When I run "zpool create bottlecap c6t21800080E512C872d14 
> c6t21800080E512C872d15", I get the following error:
> invalid vdev specification
> use '-f' to override the following errors:
> /dev/dsk/c6t21800080E512C872d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool nalgene. 
> Please see zpool(1M).
> I was able to create pool nalgene by using entire disks, but this was 
> awhile back.  I have a feeling one of the patches I applied after 
> creating nalgene broke something.  I am currently using Solaris 10 
> SPARC 8/07 kernel 127111-11.
>  
> Also, if I append s0 to the disk name (i.e. c6t21800080E512C872d14s0), 
> then I can create the new zpool.  Any ideas?
>  
> William Yang
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