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2011/10/4 Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>

>  One thing is missed from software RAIDs is spare drives and state
> monitoring (yes, I know, that geom_raid supports spare drivers for
> metadata formats which supports them, but it not universal solution).
>

Sounds impressive!  Will be very useful for those using GEOM-based RAID
(gmirror, gstripe, graid3, graid5, etc).

Just curious:  would the geom-events framework, and in particular the
geom-events script, be useful for ZFS setups, for initiating replacements
and providing "hot-spare" support?


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