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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:13:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS pool restructuring and emergency repair
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1506221812370.12519@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <558883CD.3080006@sneakertech.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Quartz wrote:

>> Although in one of Matt Ahrens talks at BSDCan he spoke of plans to
>> change this.  Essentially you'ld be able to offline a vdev, and a
>> background process (like scrub) would copy all the data blocks from that
>> device to elsewhere in the pool.  Once finished, the devices making up
>> the vdev could be physically removed.
>
> Oh, that would be nice. Was there a timeline guesstimate for when that would 
> be implemented, or was it more a "maybe someday" thing?

This has been planned for perhaps 8 years already.  Still in the 
original status.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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