zfs and moving devices

[Chris Ruiz]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Tobias C. Berner wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a zfs pool
>
> 	NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
> 	multimedia  ONLINE       0     0     0
> 	  ad8       ONLINE       0     0     0
> 	  ad10      ONLINE       0     0     0
> 	  ad12      ONLINE       0     0     0
> 	  ad14      ONLINE       0     0     0
>
> Now, I need more sata-connecters. If I activate
> an other onboard-controller, the device names
> move:
>
>  ad8  -> ad14
>  ad10 -> ad16
>  ad12 -> ad18
>  ad14 -> ad20
>
>
> What is the proper way to handle this in zfs?

ZFS should just find the pool even though the device names have changed.

Chris