From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 22:22:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00268106564A; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mail.dannysplace.net (mail.dannysplace.net [213.133.54.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35EE8FC16; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from 203-206-171-212.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.206.171.212] helo=[192.168.10.10]) by mail.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1L2vQv-0005sl-Pr; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:22:03 +1000 Message-ID: <49249169.9010406@dannysplace.net> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:21:29 +1000 From: Danny Carroll User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <49240A80.5010106@dannysplace.net> <20081119125138.GA86942@icarus.home.lan> <20081119211227.GA2553@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081119211227.GA2553@garage.freebsd.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.69 (build at 08-Jul-2008 08:59:40) X-Date: 2008-11-20 08:22:02 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:1163 X-Message-Linecount: 27 X-Body-Linecount: 13 X-Message-Size: 1033 X-Body-Size: 389 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 3 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 3 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: pjd@FreeBSD.org, koitsu@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ferrari.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail.dannysplace.net) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: ZFS Drive change best practice. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@dannysplace.net List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:05 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > After some more tests I'll commit changes that make ZFS to always depend > on metadata only. > So I guess that means in the future, you could power down a system, re-arrange the disk positions and when you powered back up ZFS would just work? Could I also ask what the usual lead time is for ZFS changes to go from current -> stable? I'm just curious. -D