K 10 svn:author V 3 avg K 8 svn:date V 27 2017-05-26T11:54:42.662969Z K 7 svn:log V 2027 4465 zpool(1M) is able to offline cache vdevs despite what man page says 5659 in the manual page for zpool(1M), one misuse of the word 'zpool' to describe a pool illumos/illumos-gate@c8323d4323a565676ba44883bfeb289d9ed8813e https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/c8323d4323a565676ba44883bfeb289d9ed8813e https://www.illumos.org/issues/4465 zpool(1M) is able to offline cache vdevs despite man page saying that it isn't: zpool offline [-t] pool device ... Takes the specified physical device offline. While the device is offline, no attempt is made to read or write to the device. This command is not applicable to spares or cache devices. altair:root:~# zpool create testoff c9t67d0 cache c9t71d0 altair:root:~# zpool status testoff pool: testoff state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM testoff ONLINE 0 0 0 c9t67d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 cache c9t71d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors altair:root:~# zpool offline testoff c9t71d0 altair:root:~# zpool status testoff pool: testoff state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has been taken offline by the administrator. Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. action: Online the device using 'zpool online' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. scan: none requested https://www.illumos.org/issues/5659 At https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/man/man1m/ zpool.1m#L931 Do not add a disk that is currently configured as a quorum device to a zpool. – should be: Do not add a disk that is currently configured as a quorum device to a pool. Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens Approved by: Hans Rosenfeld Author: Yuri Pankov END