Scenario:
Disk fails due to the random earth magnetic fluctuations and the sun spot cycle. Pull disk, smash with hammer, and replace with another similar spec'd device. FreeNAS will NOT acknowledge the insertion of /dev/da6 (for example).
TL;DR == SWAP is holding the device /dev/da6 open. As long as swap is holding that device, the OS will not allow that device to be re-created. Only when swap is turned off or disabled, will a failed disk replace as expected.
Who thought this was a good idea to put swap partitions on data disks? Unless swap is disabled, there is no way to truly hot-swap failed disks.
As always, rebooting is for quitters.
Disk fails due to the random earth magnetic fluctuations and the sun spot cycle. Pull disk, smash with hammer, and replace with another similar spec'd device. FreeNAS will NOT acknowledge the insertion of /dev/da6 (for example).
TL;DR == SWAP is holding the device /dev/da6 open. As long as swap is holding that device, the OS will not allow that device to be re-created. Only when swap is turned off or disabled, will a failed disk replace as expected.
Who thought this was a good idea to put swap partitions on data disks? Unless swap is disabled, there is no way to truly hot-swap failed disks.
As always, rebooting is for quitters.