Hi,
I made a mistake in the syntax of adding a physical disk member to a pool, then (a few seconds) later removed the disk. In that time it seems approx 108KB of data was written to the that device and it now forever reports this in the Zpool status, along with the removed device mappings memory info (96 bytes). This is an annoyance!
remove: Removal of vdev 1 copied 108K in 0h0m, completed on Wed Apr 12 10:57:44 2023
96 memory used for removed device mappings
I since read up that this is due to the 'ghost vdev' that is created when a device is removed to map the blocks that were written to the removed device onto another device. I also read that it should be possible to eliminate this message if all the data (the 108KB) that was written to the removed device is deleted.
Question is... how can I identify what that data is? Is there any way?
Thanks!
I made a mistake in the syntax of adding a physical disk member to a pool, then (a few seconds) later removed the disk. In that time it seems approx 108KB of data was written to the that device and it now forever reports this in the Zpool status, along with the removed device mappings memory info (96 bytes). This is an annoyance!
remove: Removal of vdev 1 copied 108K in 0h0m, completed on Wed Apr 12 10:57:44 2023
96 memory used for removed device mappings
I since read up that this is due to the 'ghost vdev' that is created when a device is removed to map the blocks that were written to the removed device onto another device. I also read that it should be possible to eliminate this message if all the data (the 108KB) that was written to the removed device is deleted.
Question is... how can I identify what that data is? Is there any way?
Thanks!
