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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:28:22 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Jameson <DJameson@emerytelcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS  attaching direct access drives as Scsibus#target#drive#
Message-ID:  <20081014212822.GA12551@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <0A8710FF880BBB4687AEC66F9DCF7D0C26B462@SERVER1.emerytelcom.com>
References:  <0A8710FF880BBB4687AEC66F9DCF7D0C26B462@SERVER1.emerytelcom.com>

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:56:01PM -0600, Daniel Jameson wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> =20
>=20
> I'm in the process of building several zfs pools for a backup-server,
> the machine has 2 24 port sata 3 controllers and 48 1TB drives for
> storage.  I've done a little testing and found that building  a pool by
> using the da# device names can be inconsistent.  For example if a device
> is lost from the first controller and the box is re-booted all the da#s
> shuffle up,  which creates problems with adjacent pools, and the
> potential for catastrophic failure. In the Sun documentation zpool
> allows a pool to be built by using S#T#D# (Scsibus Target Drive) syntax,
> when I attempt it in FBSD It returns:" cannot use '/dev/c0t0d0': must be
> a GEOM provider" does anyone know a way to statically map a
> scsibus/target/drive to a specific da# or a fix to allow specific drives
> by target numbers to be added to a zpool?

The Sun documentation is not at all relevent when you get to the
disk attachment bit since we use geom.  You can wire da# allocation
down which should do what you want.  There's some documentation in
sys/conf/NOTES.

-- Brooks

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