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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by vero2 on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:40AM (#30386246)
> were not in their expected locations on the new box

This is why one should not use sda/sdb or vda equivalent but use /dev/disk/by-uuid/

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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by matja on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:38AM (#30387893)
Can also use cachefile=none and the name does not matter at all. Every disk vdev has a unique guid in the ZFS label area. Without the pool cachefile the guid is used to reliably assemble the pool, instead of the kernel device path.
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