Why is the import pool option empty?
Yet the pool is detected to be “added” either to new or existing, what do these 2 options mean?
Those two options will add your available 9 disks to a new or an existing pool and while doing so wipe all data currently on the disks in question.
I suggest you don’t do that unless you don’t mind losing that data.
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I was afraid of that. What an extremely dangerous option, especially when the system seems to know that the disks are part of an exported pool. As compared to the 2 disks that weren’t part of the exported pool.
What version of TN are you running? Could it be that the pool is newer than the version?
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Yeah, I think you get warnings about that later on, as the place you stopped at is step 1.
Either way, I am not sure why your disks aren’t visible in the Import GUI.
Maybe you can run sudo zpool import in the shell and post the output? It’s nondestructive and will just show what’s seen by the system.
I suspect someone else here has further ideas on what the issue could be though, so you could just wait a bit and see.
Other possibility is that the pool is already imported but only visible on the CLI. Could you run zpool status and show the output and after that zpool import.
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It turns out one of the disks of the exported pool was missing, which prevented the import option from showing it. I powered off the server, reseated a disk and then it was avail for import after power up.
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