Hi,
I was up until recently using Opensolaris for my NAS box. Following an aborted attempt to migrate to ESXi with hardware RAID and then Linux, I've decided to go back to ZFS. OpenSolaris is now dead, so I'm now looking at alternatives.
One of the nice things about OpenSolaris was that it didn't renumber the disks, it always remembered that port 3 on the controller mapped to c0t3d0 etc. I know that this is not the case on Linux, that is if ports 0-7 on a controller are populated and the disk on port 5 dies, sda6 -> sda5, sda7->sda6.
Does this happen on FreeBSD too? If a disk disappears, or dies, how can I tell which one it is? Will all the disks be renumbered if this happens? Will my ZFS setup run into issues?
Regards...
b0redom
I was up until recently using Opensolaris for my NAS box. Following an aborted attempt to migrate to ESXi with hardware RAID and then Linux, I've decided to go back to ZFS. OpenSolaris is now dead, so I'm now looking at alternatives.
One of the nice things about OpenSolaris was that it didn't renumber the disks, it always remembered that port 3 on the controller mapped to c0t3d0 etc. I know that this is not the case on Linux, that is if ports 0-7 on a controller are populated and the disk on port 5 dies, sda6 -> sda5, sda7->sda6.
Does this happen on FreeBSD too? If a disk disappears, or dies, how can I tell which one it is? Will all the disks be renumbered if this happens? Will my ZFS setup run into issues?
Regards...
b0redom