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List:       zfs-discuss
Subject:    Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrate ZFS volume to new pool
From:       Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen () simple ! dallas ! tx ! us>
Date:       2010-04-29 22:20:38
Message-ID: alpine.GSO.2.01.1004291719250.12887 () freddy ! simplesystems ! org
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Jim Horng wrote:

>> Why would you recommend a spare for raidz2 or raidz3?
>
> Spare is to minimize the reconstruction time.  Because remember a 
> vdev can not start resilvering until there is a spare disk 
> available. And with disks as big as they are today, resilvering also 
> take many hours.  I rather have the disk finished resilvering before 
> I have the chance to replace the bad disk than to risk more disks 
> fail before It had a chance to resilverize.

Would your opinion change if the disks you used took 7 days to 
resilver?

Bob
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