RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

Tue Jan 22 15:26:47 UTC 2013

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:04:42 -0600, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>  
wrote:

> I'm a proponent of using various types of labels, but my impression  
> after a recent experience was that ZFS metadata was enough to identify  
> the drives even if they were moved around.  That is, ZFS bare metadata  
> on a drive with no other partitioning or labels.
>  Is that incorrect?

If you have an enclosure with 48 drives can you be confident which drive  
is failing using only the ZFS metadata?