I have done some playing around with my new NAS hardware (detailed here). I'm a lot more comfortable with FreeNAS/ZFS now and I think I'm about ready to trust my data to it. I'm going to start the badblock test to verify the drives, but after that I'm ready to go!
I do have one question though. When I added the drives the first time, I did it one at a time, and I put a label on each hot swap caddy (1, 2, 3, etc...). Once the drive appeared, I added a matching description to the disk ("Disk 1", "Disk 2", "Disk 3", etc). Once they were all attached, the device names were in alignment with the descriptions (ada0 = Disk1, ada1=Disk2, etc). After a reboot, the device names are all out of order. I have the drive bays connected to the SATA ports such that SATA-0 = Disk 1, SATA-1 = Disk 2, etc. (SATA port numbers are based on the Quick Reference Guide that came with the motherboard.)
My question is... should I care? Does it really matter that these number are out of order? Should they be in order? I realize that the first time, the device names increased because that's the order of drive attachment. I'm just surprised that on clean boot with all drives attached, the adaX order doesn't match the SATA-X order.
I do have one question though. When I added the drives the first time, I did it one at a time, and I put a label on each hot swap caddy (1, 2, 3, etc...). Once the drive appeared, I added a matching description to the disk ("Disk 1", "Disk 2", "Disk 3", etc). Once they were all attached, the device names were in alignment with the descriptions (ada0 = Disk1, ada1=Disk2, etc). After a reboot, the device names are all out of order. I have the drive bays connected to the SATA ports such that SATA-0 = Disk 1, SATA-1 = Disk 2, etc. (SATA port numbers are based on the Quick Reference Guide that came with the motherboard.)
My question is... should I care? Does it really matter that these number are out of order? Should they be in order? I realize that the first time, the device names increased because that's the order of drive attachment. I'm just surprised that on clean boot with all drives attached, the adaX order doesn't match the SATA-X order.