From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 16:14:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB567106564A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:14:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schulra@earlham.edu) Received: from chkenon.earlham.edu (chkenon.earlham.edu [159.28.1.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26418FC1D for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:14:28 +0000 (UTC) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1330445668-037b9f0db963f10001-jLrpzn Received: from tdream.lly.earlham.edu (tdream.lly.earlham.edu [159.28.7.241]) by chkenon.earlham.edu with ESMTP id jiMIRn9hZB9pPdpy for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:14:28 -0500 (EST) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: schulra@earlham.edu X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 159.28.7.241 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:16:11 -0500 (EST) From: Randy Schultz X-X-Sender: schulra@tdream.lly.earlham.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Barracuda-Connect: tdream.lly.earlham.edu[159.28.7.241] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1330445668 X-Barracuda-URL: http://159.28.1.87:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at earlham.edu X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=1000.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.89785 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: zpool not grabbing hot spare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:14:30 -0000 On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Randy Schultz spaketh thusly: -} -}I thought the spare was supposed to come online and be resilvered -}automatically. Did I miss some config thing -}or did I just misunderstand how the hot spare bit works? Gah. Forgot to check the beasty forums (tnx Mark for the gentle poke). For any others not aware, the docs all say the spare is hot, but this is not accurate. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/013428.html Heh, shows how much I've been paying attention - I didn't even realize there was a freebsd-fs list. "But I'm feeling much better now". ;> -- Randy (schulra@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 <*> nosce te ipsum