Replacing a drive, doing it right?

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Hi all,

I have a zpool with two drives in a mirror. I needed a drive for another project and didn't follow the right procedure to unload it (just pulled it from an idle running system, thought that would be better than it not being there on reboot, but whatever).

Anyway, I have the new drive in the system and did a "zpool replace" on the drive. The system immediately started resilvering, and nine hours later it is done. Except it hasn't forgotten about the old drive yet and reports that the pool is still degraded:

[brian@freenas] /> zpool status
pool: tank
state: DEGRADED
scan: resilvered 1.33T in 8h42m with 0 errors on Sun Jul 14 18:22:01 2013
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
gptid/0f205cd3-72cc-11e1-8c64-e4115b13822a ONLINE 0 0 0
replacing-1 DEGRADED 0 0 0
2672430315234929017 OFFLINE 0 0 0 was /dev/gptid/d561aa1b-750b-11e1-be54-e4115b13822a
ada1 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors
Is this something that will resolve with time or is there more that I need to do?
Thanks, Brian

 

[cyberjock]

There is something else you need to do...

Section 6.3.11 of the manual, step 4. :)

 

[topping]

Indeed, it seems that there was one other thing I forgot: RTFM!!!

Thank you! :)

FWIW, the docs aren't readily accessible from the website, one has to google for "FreeNAS documentation". I did that after your post. And I had read them in the past, but they seem to have improved considerably since then. Now I know they have information like this.

 

[cyberjock]

I'm not sure why you say they aren't readily accessible from the website. They are there. If you click the download link, then put in your email address(if you want) and go to the download page, right above the download link is the 8.3.1 Documentation link.

 

[topping]

Might I suggest adding an element to the site menu titled "Documentation"? People have called me stupid, but less often than I've seen people do it to others, so I suspect it might be valuable to more than just me.

Thanks for your continuing efforts on the project!!