Can't use gpt labels re-importing pool

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 26 11:53:15 UTC 2009


Edho P Arief wrote:

> for some reasons it sounds to me like 'avoiding problem' since device
> name shouldn't matter in zfs (or so I read)

Theoretically, you should be right, but the details are still fuzzy. At 
the very least, the sequence "zpool export" - shuffle drives around - 
"zpool import" should work without problems, though ZFS might pick up 
different drive names if multiple labels are present; for example if 
using partitions, some of the drives in the pool could be imported as 
"adXp1" and others as "gptid/xxxx..." so a manual intervention might be 
needed to keep things consistent.



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