On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> Nope, on import it will scan all the disks for ZFS pools. It doesn't care >> about the physical device names changing. >> > > It does seem to care after the pool has been imported. A few people have > been bit by hardware/BIOS/firmware updates which somehow changes the device > names across reboots, or consumer hardware which changes IDs every time a > removable device is plugged in. It is wise to export the pool before > flashing new firmware which might cause a change to device IDs. If you are > using USB drives and plug the cables into different USB ports while the pool > is still imported, then the pool will refuse to work. > > FreeBSD seems to cause more issues due to changing device names than > Solaris does. > > Bob well, i will be using the popular AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards (3 of them) with a supermicro mbd-x7sbe motherboard. I doubt i'll even need the onboard controller at all seeing as i have 24 devices i plan to use (21 1tb drives and 3 ssd's) I just want to plan as well as i can.
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