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<DrKK`> I'm trying to comprehend what z300M is saying here
<DrKK`> https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/pool1-has-shares-and-jail-what-happens-if.36378/
<gadget> Im just glad we have the 10kw solar panels
<DrKK`> he's pretty smart,
<DrKK`> so I am sure his question is legit
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<DrKK`> but I appear to be insufficient smart to parse it
<DrKK`> insufficiently
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<gadget> Basically
<gadget> He's asking if the pools need to be exported to different names
<gadget> I think.
<DrKK`> there's some "jails" angle
<DrKK`> to the question
<DrKK`> that is giving me parse problems
<DrKK`> ok
<DrKK`> I think I am iteratively converging on understanding his question.
<gadget> I guess just consider everything else then consider the jails
<DrKK`> He has a pool A, with jails.
<DrKK`> he doesn't like pool A, presumably because of the configuration.
<DrKK`> so he is going to zfs send/replicate it to pool B
<DrKK`> including the jails
<DrKK`> then he wants to export out the primary pool, cold.
<DrKK`> then he wants to rename pool B to pool A,
<DrKK`> and his question is,
<DrKK`> is everything kosher like it used to be?
<DrKK`> And if that's his question,
<DrKK`> I think the answer is mostly "yes", subject to 2 caveats:
<gadget> I guess we can ask him to rephrase it XD
<DrKK`> 1) You can't rename pools, I don't think,
<DrKK`> or
<DrKK`> there is some reason why that's bad, or something...
<DrKK`> or something can't be renamed
<DrKK`> anyway, and
<DrKK`> 2) He'll have to go in jail->config and change the doc root
<DrKK`> or rather,
<DrKK`> the jail root
<DrKK`> to reflect the new pool.
<DrKK`> or something.
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<DrKK`> what do you think?
<DrKK`> does that sound like what he was asking?
<gadget> Probably it's a really simple question, but he didn't phrase it right.
<DrKK`> well I am going to cut and paste this conversation
<DrKK`> as my answer.
<DrKK`> presumably he will clarify.
I assume you're posting a conversation from IRC.
Let me try again: Pool1 consists of two RaidZ2 vdevs, striped. I have created Pool2 -- a single RaidZ3 pool -- and have replicated Pool1 to it.
I have already tested renaming a pool by performing the operation on yet another pool -- one without any associated shares or jails -- and found that it works.
I want to destroy the existing Pool1 and reconfigure it as a single RaidZ3 pool. It seems to me that I have two choices: (a) call the new pool Pool1 and replicate everything back from Pool2 to the new Pool1; or (b) call the new pool Pool2A (or something entirely different), then rename the current "Pool2" to "Pool1."
What are the pros and cons of these two courses of action? -- especially as they affect shares and jails? Or is there another, better, course of action I haven't thought of?
