From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 11 14:16:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FCA377 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:16:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@allanjude.com) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DECC2850 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.108.129]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07B0E2D803; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52580837.4020301@allanjude.com> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:16:23 -0400 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 and zfsd. References: <5256B761.4050301@gmail.com> <5257A284.2040406@gmail.com> <5257A7C3.8080004@allanjude.com> <20131011102742.581fa352@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20131011102742.581fa352@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:16:03 -0000 On 2013-10-11 04:27, O. Hartmann wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 03:24:51 -0400 > Allan Jude wrote: > >> On 2013-10-11 03:02, Johan Hendriks wrote: >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> That bit is in the zfs handbook project branch, it just isn't >> published yet >> > ... so it isn't visible to the "normal" users. > > I would also appreciate a hint in the man page of zpool(8). Like > "Be aware: A spare declared vdev is not (yet) automatically replacing a > faulty rendered drive. Human action is still required." > > It could save some trouble in prevention. > > Oliver Lyndon Nerenberg attached a patch for the man page earlier in the thread, and I have forwarded that to the docs team -- Allan Jude