[developer] re-adding a drive to a pool causes resilver to start over?

2018-07-09 Thread Ken Merry
be the RAIDZ3 vdev.) Is there anything we can do to make sure the resilvers complete in a reasonable period of time or otherwise improve the behavior? (Short of putting in different drives…I have already suggested that.) Thanks, Ken — Ken Merry k...@freebsd.org

Re: [developer] anyone working on SMR support for ZFS?

2017-05-25 Thread Ken Merry
> On May 24, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Andrew Gabriel > wrote: > > On 24/05/2017 22:10, Ken Merry wrote: >> Is anyone working on SMR support for ZFS? >> >> I put support into FreeBSD for SMR drives from the block layer (GEOM) >> through the SCSI layer (CAM): &g

[developer] anyone working on SMR support for ZFS?

2017-05-24 Thread Ken Merry
ult-2017.pdf> We (Spectra Logic) are considering starting work on supporting Host Aware and Host Managed SMR drives in ZFS, and we’d rather collaborate with other folks who are interested instead of duplicating the effort. Thanks, Ken — Ken Me