Does the drive port matter when reassembling FreeNAS?

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NASbox

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Hope someone can help me here:

I have a FreeNAS 8.3.1 box that I had to take down for fan replacement.

Box has two pools, P1 RAIDZ2 - ada0,1,2,3
and P2 RAIDZ1 - ada4,5

The box was shut down properly, but I didn't export the volumes because I thought everything was labeled and could be put back exactly as it was taken apart.

No problem with P1, but it turns out that I didn't label P2, so I'm not sure which drive should be ada4 and which drive should be ada5.

If I get the two drives backwards will it matter?
How should I proceed to minimize the chances of screwing things up?

Thanks in advance.
 

Mirfster

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SweetAndLow

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Drive order doesn't matter
 

wblock

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ZFS recognizes disks by a label that is written in metadata, so they do not need to be attached to the same port or even same controller.
 

NASbox

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Thanks all... especially appreciate this "ZFS recognizes disks by a label that is written in metadata, so they do not need to be attached to the same port or even same controller." This is very helpful going forward.

I did guess right anyway, but it's great to know
 
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