Robert Smith
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Hi,
I am practicing replacing a drive in a Z2 pool. I have followed the documentation, and after the Replace command the new drive started reslivering, while the zpool status was reporting the removed drive as ‘repalcing’ and the new drive as ‘reslivering’.
So far so good.
The last step in the documentation is detaching the old drive.
I did not want to wait three hours before clicking the detach button; and clicked it before reslivering was complete. Why should not I be able to? The old drive is physically removed already anyway...
To my surprise this restarted the new drive reslivering from the beginning.
Why did that happen, and did I damage anything? Can I safely do what I did?
As to why am I asking this; I am looking for the replacement procedure, where I can put the new drive in, and walk away from the site, rather than wait there for hours to complete the procedure.
Thank you.
P.S. The logic of the drive replacement procedure in FreeNAS documentation goes against my experience with other systems. Should not we detach the drive as the first step, other than last?
I am practicing replacing a drive in a Z2 pool. I have followed the documentation, and after the Replace command the new drive started reslivering, while the zpool status was reporting the removed drive as ‘repalcing’ and the new drive as ‘reslivering’.
So far so good.
The last step in the documentation is detaching the old drive.
I did not want to wait three hours before clicking the detach button; and clicked it before reslivering was complete. Why should not I be able to? The old drive is physically removed already anyway...
To my surprise this restarted the new drive reslivering from the beginning.
Why did that happen, and did I damage anything? Can I safely do what I did?
As to why am I asking this; I am looking for the replacement procedure, where I can put the new drive in, and walk away from the site, rather than wait there for hours to complete the procedure.
Thank you.
P.S. The logic of the drive replacement procedure in FreeNAS documentation goes against my experience with other systems. Should not we detach the drive as the first step, other than last?