Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-24 Thread Russ Price
On Tue, March 23, 2010 12:00, Ray Van Dolson wrote: ZFS recognizes disks based on various ZFS special blocks written to them. It also keeps a cache file on where things have been lately. If you export a ZFS pool, swap the physical drives around, and import it, everything should be fine.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:47:27AM -0700, Russ Price wrote: On Tue, March 23, 2010 12:00, Ray Van Dolson wrote: ZFS recognizes disks based on various ZFS special blocks written to them. It also keeps a cache file on where things have been lately. If you export a ZFS pool, swap the

[zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Kind of a newbie question here -- or I haven't been able to find great search terms for this... Does ZFS recognize zpool members based on drive serial number or some other unique, drive-associated ID? Or is it based off the drive's location (c0t0d0, etc). I'm wondering because I have a zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: Kind of a newbie question here -- or I haven't been able to find great search terms for this... Does ZFS recognize zpool members based on drive serial number or some other unique, drive-associated ID? Or is it based

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving drives around...

2010-03-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, March 23, 2010 12:00, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Kind of a newbie question here -- or I haven't been able to find great search terms for this... Does ZFS recognize zpool members based on drive serial number or some other unique, drive-associated ID? Or is it based off the drive's