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Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Subject: Re: ZFS zpool mirror drive replacement confusion
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on 11/08/2011 19:36 Freddie Cash said the following:
> There's a very big safety net included already:  zpool will error out
> complaining about mis-matched vdevs if you try to "zpool add" a single disk to a
> pool with a mirror vdev.  In fact, the user has to add "-f" (force) to the
> "zpool add" command in order for this to even happen.  IOW, this is user error,
> not "lack of safety nets".  :)
>  

Good! Didn't know about this, thanks.

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Andriy Gapon