I have begun experimenting with Solaris and ZFS as a NAS. All was going very smoothly until I had a drive failure. When I replaced the drive, I no longer have a device file mapped to the whole disk. /dev/dsk/c7t3d0 does not exist but c7t2d0 and c7t4d0 both do. Also the sd@3,0:wd file under the /devices/ tree is non-existent. Do I have to prepare/partition the disk somehow to cause the whole disk device to exist?
Here are a few outputs that might be useful.
jeffmc@ats-ds2:/dev/dsk$ zpool status
pool: datapool
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas exist for
the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state.
action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
datapool DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
c7t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c7t3d0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c7t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c7t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
jeffmc@ats-ds2:/dev/dsk$ zpool replace datapool c7t3d0
cannot open 'c7t3d0': no such device in /dev/dsk
must be a full path or shorthand device name
jeffmc@ats-ds2:/dev/dsk$ sudo format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c7t0d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@0,0
1. c7t1d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@1,0
2. c7t2d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@2,0
3. c7t3d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@3,0
4. c7t4d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@4,0
5. c7t5d0
/pci@0,0/pci8086,3599@6/pci8086,330@0/pci1014,2cc@7,1/sd@5,0