[zfs-discuss] changing vdev types

Eric Sproul
Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:52:53 -0000

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Matt Harrison
<iwasinnamuknow at genestate.com> wrote:
> Thanks Eric, however seeing as I can''t have two pools named
''tank'', I''ll
> have to name the new one something else. I believe I will be able to rename
> it afterwards, but I just wanted to check first. I''d have to have
to spend
> hours changing the pool name in a thousand files.

What files would those be?  Usually the pool name (and therefore the
dataset names) doesn''t matter-- only mountpoints matter to most things
on the system, but maybe you have a more interesting use case.  :)

Eric