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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:00:15 -0500
From:      Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS sharing spares (does not work).
Message-ID:  <5f67a8c40912141800t71bf9637h89f2469846343cd4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B26EC5A.5000405@quip.cz>
References:  <5f67a8c40912141711x6475032bg539c46753f8099da@mail.gmail.com> <4B26EC5A.5000405@quip.cz>

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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.


>



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