On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Michelle Knight wrote:

> Another question ...
> 
> I did this as a test because I am aware that zpools don't like drives 
> switching controlers without being exported first. The question was, what 
> would a rpool boot drive do if it was put on a different controller and then 
> booted?

It does the right thing.

> I shut down, took away c7 and hooked c19 up to the SATA cable that I used to 
> connect c7 to ... just out of interest to see what would happen.
> 
> I was half expecting it to have a problem booting, and half expecting it to 
> come up as c7 ... but it still came up as c19 in the zpool status. Any idea 
> why?

During boot, grub will locate the pool and get it started.  Did you notice that
the grub menu does not mention specific disks and uses findroot instead? :-)
 -- richard

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