In general, ZFS can handle importing a pool from devices with different
paths. This has been true for many years.
On Aug 12, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Mike DeMarco wrote:
> We are going to be migrating to a new EMC frame using Open Replicator.
I have no idea what Open Replicator is. Perhaps nobody else does either?
> ZFS is sitting on volumes that are running MPXIO. So the controller
number/disk number is going to change when we reboot the server. I would like to
konw if anyone has done this and will the zfs filesystems "just work"
and find the new disk id numbers when we go to zfs import the pool.
>
> Our process would be:
> zfs export any and all pools on the server
> shutdown the server
> re-zone the storage to the new EMC frame.
> EMC on the backend will present the old drives through the new frame/drives
using Open Replicator.
> boot the server to single user mode
> zfs import the pools
> reboot the server.
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