On May 31, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > Namely, leave the third drive on the shelf as a cold spare, and use > the third sata connector for an ssd, as L2ARC, ZIL or even possibly > both (which will affect selection of which device to use).
If it is powered on, then it is a warm spare :-) Warm spares are a good idea. For some platforms, you can spin down the disk so it doesn't waste energy. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
