From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 15 02:00:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A11106566C for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:00:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CA38FC1B for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so4370071ewy.3 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=NODUnmuu/7MOs9dHhIj2HJ6CFIIUutVA9tqelMuExaU=; b=r3SVuZWmJvIs74wmvxAXNLZT3w9O0tNTlf4Cq6MfYMoKkHgaD/FSW7kmIrYkg5HjSo WUc6NXfksWszgiHnKhxBIyebGa1qT71UcWqHmAU3FvKV/ZVXQEdeCY0qESaCIxR5XWEy 3h+Kpwg1giZXzckof7aC1OEXhEw7KvYD+EATc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vMbsyLlpuap1fg0WML0hWpqlhJqNk97dyJq8cqaNJeQCkkqc7mg3wwP4y5kiBRxOO8 FypH+aSoTQreFc7PN8fDqrKbnDzJWRo1w3+1XVI6W6MYEIcEnC2wEiaUwCXJiONB0VHQ n+rveC9ZuviDZv5RmLV37IpZdwOk5QAGy2zUw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.86.14 with SMTP id v14mr2330593wee.183.1260842415046; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B26EC5A.5000405@quip.cz> References: <5f67a8c40912141711x6475032bg539c46753f8099da@mail.gmail.com> <4B26EC5A.5000405@quip.cz> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:00:15 -0500 Message-ID: <5f67a8c40912141800t71bf9637h89f2469846343cd4@mail.gmail.com> From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs Subject: Re: ZFS sharing spares (does not work). X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:00:22 -0000 On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > >> According to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/gcvcw?a=view , >> different ZFS pools can share hot spare drives. I've tried this with >> 7.2p4, >> and it doesn't work. I've tried both adding the spares at create time and >> adding the spares after creating the pools. This seems like a useful and >> (relatively) easy thing to fix? >> > > AFAIK ZFS on FreeBSD dosen't support spares at all. Spare can be assigned, > but is never used after fail of one member component. > (it is handled by some daemon on Solaris) Seems like the documentation, at least, should reflect that. >