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How can I stop FreeNAS from assigning two disks from different SATA controllers the same device number?

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I have FreeNAS running in a VM in XCP-NG. I’ve followed the guides and I’ve dedicated a SATA controller to it using PCI-passthrough. FreeNAS correctly discovers its boot disk, which is virtual, and two physical disks that are connected through the SATA controller. Unfortunately, FreeNAS identifies both the virtual boot disk and the first physical disk as ada0.

Here’s what I get when I run geom disk list

Geom name: ada0Providers:1. Name: ada0   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)   Sectorsize: 512   Mode: r1w1e2   descr: (null)   ident: (null)   rotationrate: unknown   fwsectors: 0   fwheads: 0Geom name: cd0Providers:1. Name: cd0   Mediasize: 0 (0B)   Sectorsize: 2048   Mode: r0w0e0   descr: QEMU QEMU DVD-ROM   ident: (null)   rotationrate: unknown   fwsectors: 0   fwheads: 0Geom name: ada0Providers:1. Name: ada0   Mediasize: 4000787030016 (3.6T)   Sectorsize: 512   Stripesize: 4096   Stripeoffset: 0   Mode: r1w1e2   descr: WDC WD40EZRZ-00WN9B0   lunid: 50014ee20d58de88   ident: WD-WCC4E5SLVZV7   rotationrate: 5400   fwsectors: 63   fwheads: 16Geom name: ada1Providers:1. Name: ada1   Mediasize: 4000787030016 (3.6T)   Sectorsize: 512   Stripesize: 4096   Stripeoffset: 0   Mode: r1w1e2   descr: WDC WD40EZRX-22SPEB0   lunid: 50014ee2b6e06d20   ident: WD-WCC4E4EN0Y9S   rotationrate: 5400   fwsectors: 63   fwheads: 16

As you can see, ada0 appears twice. This is wreaking all kinds of havoc with ZFS, which coredumps if I run zpool import or make any attempt to load the existing pool on the physical disks.

Some things that I’ve learned during my research into this:

  1. If I run Linux instead of FreeNAS, the disks are detected as xvda, sda and sdb.
  2. If I change the position of the boot disk to 2 instead of 0, it becomes ada2 and pool import works but this isn’t feasible since I plan to have several more physical disks.
  3. I can’t tell XCP-NG to assign the boot disk some high number that won’t conflict with any physical disks because then the VM won’t boot. It appears that the boot disk needs to be in position 3 or lower.
  4. In a YouTube video, someone else who’s done this used a SAS controller instead and the physical disks were labelled da0, da1, etc., avoiding the conflict.

Is there any way I can force FreeNAS to number the disks from the second controller differently? Can I force it to use da0? Can I force it to start at a different offset, like ada1? Can I trick it into giving the virtual disk a different device name? Can I get XCP-NG to boot from a disk at an arbitrary position? Am I just stuck unless I buy a SAS controller?


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