On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 11:36, Rocky Hotas <rockyho...@firemail.cc> wrote: > > On feb 24 23:39, David Brownlee wrote: > > [...] > > > Or if another disk is plugged in that appears as a lower numbered > > device, for example making the disk switch from wd1 to wd2. > > Ok! > > > Apologies, poor phrasing on my part - I meant whole devices rather > > than partition within a device - so wd4, ld0, sd3, as opposed to wd1e > > or raid2f. I suspect wedges such as dk3 should be fine, but again, > > better to give zfs the whole device. (on a note of light amusement I > > have used all of the mentioned devices in zfs pools at least once :) > > No problem. Yes, according to the previous message from Chavdar Ivanov, > wedges can be used as well. > If you tested any sort of device, it's definitely good :)! ZFS seems > very flexible about that.
Yup - To clarify, I've used zfs without issue on wedges, while I believe I have restarted with the wedge appearing as a different device id I cannot confirm it. While I have restarted with different device ids for the other devices, and the only one to have an issue was on disklabelled partitions. I should file a PR :) Thanks David
