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,

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

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 > l

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

2010-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, 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

[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 set