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List:       zfs-discuss
Subject:    Re: [zfs-discuss] rpool spare
From:       Cindy Swearingen <cindy.swearingen () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-09-29 16:25:38
Message-ID: 4CA36882.10806 () oracle ! com
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Tony,

A brief follow-up is that the issue of applying the boot blocks
automatically to a spare for a root pool is covered by this
existing CR 6668666. See this URL for more details.

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6668666

Thanks,

Cindy

On 09/29/10 08:38, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> The current behavior is that you can add a spare to a root pool. If the 
> spare kicks in automatically, you would need to apply the boot blocks
> manually before you could boot from the spared-in disk.
> 
> A good alternative is to create a two-way or three-way mirrored root
> pool.
> 
> We're tracking the root pool boot issues. If a bug isn't filed for this 
> issue, I will file it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cindy
> 
> On 09/29/10 08:31, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
>> Using ZFS v22, is it possible to add a hot spare to rpool?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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