On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Cyril Plisko <cyril.pli...@mountall.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Orvar Korvar
> <knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a ZFS raid and wonder if it is possible to move the ZFS raid around
>> from SATA port to another? Ive heard that someone assembled the SATA
>> connections differently and the ZFS raid wouldnt work.
>>
>> Say that I have 8 SATA port controller card with 4 drives in a ZFS raid.
>> Sata ports 0-3 are occupied and Sata ports 4-7 are empty. Could I move SATA
>> connection nr 0 to the SATA port nr 4?
>
> Orvar,
>
> You should be able to move/shuffle your disks freely as long as they
> (disks) are still visible to the OS. ZFS ultimately uses device GUID
> to assemble the pool back, rather than the physical path to the
> device. That said having a spare system to test on before
> experimenting with a production environment is always a good idea :)
I just tried that with VirtualBox - it has AHCI SATA controller with
plenty of ports.
Worked pretty nice - as expected.
--
Regards,
Cyril
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