Re: zpool (online|replace|labelclear) issues, -f option also failing

From: Ultima <ultima1252_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:13:52 -0400
This patch looks good its too bad the core hasn't looked at it yet. Ill do
some testing and report any issues found. Some points you bring up in the
bug are quite valid. Thanks for working on this! =]

Ultima

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Ganael LAPLANCHE <martymac_at_freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:00:42 -0400, Ultima wrote
>
> Hi Ultima,
>
> > I really think the force (-f) flag needs a bump in power (for both
> > replace and labelclear) [...].
>
> In case you are interested, I have posted a patch to improve the 'zpool
> labelclear' command here :
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204622
>
> - force ('-f') will now allow to erase labels, even if they are broken
> (restoring the behaviour of our previous -FreeBSD- version of labelclear)
> - You can select which label you want to erase (beginning, end or
> specific index)
> - You can use a 'minimal' mode which will invalidate a label by changing
> only a single byte. This is useful to minimize the chances to
> overwrite/destroy a FS that would have been created over the label, but
> still leaving the label visible.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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