Change FreeNAS Boot Pool name?

[Ruff.Hi]

The OCD in me is bugged by the '0 0 0' against freenas-boot not lining up.

Code:

########## ZPool status report for freenas-boot ##########

  pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Wed Aug 30 03:45:35 2017
config:

	NAME		STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
	freenas-boot  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
	  mirror-0  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		ada0p2  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		ada1p2  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

errors: No known data errors

I've googled system pool name change with little luck. Any suggestions?

 

[nightshade00013]

There, Their, They're..... It will be ok, I have now given you something else to stress your OCD on.

But seriously you could put in a bug ticket if it REALLLLLLLLYYYY bothers you but otherwise......


LEAVE IT ALONE

Seriously, messing with this type of thing can have unintended consequences that may eat your data, get your dog, cat, or mother pregnant, among many other things that just are not worth the hassle you will have to deal with later.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

HA!

Your 'there' does not faze me. I don't have a cat, the dog has been spayed and my mother is not pregnant (that I know of ... and if she was, I should place a call to the Guinness Book of Records).

That said ... widening the 'name' column by two spaces would also fix things.

 

[Stux]

Would not suggest pursuing this.

 

[Chris Moore]

What you can do, I did it to one of my systems, is plug the boot drives into different SATA ports on the system board. I moved mine from 1 and 2 to 3 and 4. Be sure to adjust the boot order in the BIOS (UEFI) as you still want it to try the first drive and fail over to the second drive. Boot back into FreeNAS and let us know how it works for you.

Your results may vary, but it worked for me.

No warranty, no refund.

 

[Ericloewe]

What you can do, I did it to one of my systems, is plug the boot drives into different SATA ports on the system board. I moved mine from 1 and 2 to 3 and 4. Be sure to adjust the boot order in the BIOS (UEFI) as you still want it to try the first drive and fail over to the second drive. Boot back into FreeNAS and let us know how it works for you.

Your results may vary, but it worked for me.

No warranty, no refund.

What does that help?

 

[Chris Moore]

What does that help?

Functionally it doesn't make a difference, but the OP is worried about how it looks.
After making the change, the drives will not be listed by the ada value but by the gptid value.
This had the effect of making the table format with all the zeroes aligned on my system, which is what is worrying the OP.
Perhaps it will be more satisfying. If not, it is just as easy to go back.
I only even know about it because I noticed the difference between my two systems, wondered why and did some experimentation to find out.

 

[Chris Moore]

What does that help?

Here is what it looks like:

Code:

  pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h8m with 0 errors on Thu Sep  7 03:53:45 2017
config:

	NAME											STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
	freenas-boot									ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
	  mirror-0									  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		gptid/f659fd6d-4b12-11e6-a97c-002590aecc79  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		gptid/f6a61d33-4b12-11e6-a97c-002590aecc79  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

errors: No known data errors

vs.

Code:

  pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h8m with 0 errors on Wed Sep  6 03:53:18 2017
config:

	NAME		STATE	 READ WRITE CKSUM
	freenas-boot  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
	  mirror-0  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		ada0p2  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0
		ada1p2  ONLINE	   0	 0	 0

errors: No known data errors

 

[Ericloewe]

Ooh, that's interesting. I didn't realize that happened, I thought the disk identifier nonsense instead of a proper GPTID was due to GRUB. I'll have to do that to my servers next time they're open, because I can totally understand the OP's problem.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

rats ... moved the SATA ports down some with no joy. Guess I will let this keep on bugging me. If this is as bad as my day gets ... then it can't be bad at all :).