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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:48:56 +0100 (CET)
From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com>
To: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de>
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Subject: Re: Uneven load on drives in ZFS RAIDZ1
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Peter Maloney wrote:

> Swapping disks (or even removing one depending on controller, etc. when
> it fails) without labels can be bad.
> eg.

Since ZFS uses (and searches for) its own UUID partition signatures s
disk wapping shouldn't matter as long enough disks are found.

Set vfs.zfs.debug=1 during boot to watch what is searched for.

Bye/2
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