> Why would you recommend a spare for raidz2 or raidz3? > -- richard
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. This is especially important if the file system is not at a location with 24 hours staff. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
