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Johan Hendriks wrote:
> When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot 
> spares are not possible on FreeBSD.
> I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would be 
> included in FreeBSD 10.
>
> Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be used?
>
> regards
> Johan Hendriks
>
Thanks all for the explanation and your time
A notice in the handbook may be a good thing to let new FreeBSD users 
know that you can add spares, but that it is not a hot spare.
So human action is required to activate the spare.

regards
Johan Hendriks