Comment by nubinetwork
3 years ago
If you offline or detach the drive, it should be fine afaik. Detach is probably the better way to go though, because it removes the drive from the status listing.
3 years ago
If you offline or detach the drive, it should be fine afaik. Detach is probably the better way to go though, because it removes the drive from the status listing.
You can’t ZFS import a pool on a drive detached this way without things happening to that drive, is the issue. So if you want a point in time archive, it’s dangerous to do that.
I think it’s nearly impossible to actually ZFS import a pool from just a single detached drive too if the original is nuked, but I imagine there is some special magic operation that might make it possible.
Splitting the new disk off into it’s own pool doesn’t have any of these issues, and is a much cleaner way to handle it.