Replacing a motherboard: what will happen to the pools?

fastzombies

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I may have to replace my motherboard. I do not want to do a direct swap as I have learned not to use Realtek NIC, so my next choice has an Intel NIC thus different board.

What is going to happen to the pools? I would expect the disks to get different device names from BIOS and for TrueNAS to not know what to do with them. Am I going to have to import pools? What about mirrored disks?
 

Etorix

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If everything has been properly setup through the GUI, ZFS tracks drives by GPTID, irrespective of device name (/dev/ada0, /dev/sda). So you plug the pool drives, the boot drive, everything just works and the only setting to fix is networking (different MAC, different default address).
 
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