Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:48:34 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS: zdev names don't match devices Message-ID: <55A03DB2.3020407@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <CACcSE1y90LKs7h2Dc%2BnaDOdmzVTf6zt9X1Au7YC-QBjVi0v5cg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACcSE1y90LKs7h2Dc%2BnaDOdmzVTf6zt9X1Au7YC-QBjVi0v5cg@mail.gmail.com>
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>Did I screw > up my zfs setup? No. This is a quirk of the way the 10.x installer/ZFS works. There are a handful of different ways to identify a disk on FreeBSD besides the device ID, including UUIDs and gpt labels and such. Device IDs will change if you ever add/remove/reorder the physical drives, so the installer uses the other methods to be safer. I don't know why it uses a mix instead of doing the same thing for each drive though. >Why do the vdevs have these names? > How do I map these vdev names back to my disks? I think you're confused about what a vdev is. "vdev" is shorthand for 'virtual device'. Disks (or partitions, or files) are grouped into a vdev, and the vdevs are then striped together to form your pool. A vdev doesn't have a "name", just a type (ie; mirror/raid/etc). The block devices that the vdevs are composed of are what can have names.
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