On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>  Is there any sort of a "Global Hot Spare" feature in ZFS,
> i.e. that one sufficiently-sized spare HDD would automatically
> be pulled into any faulted pool on the system?

Yes. See the ZFS Admin Guide section on Designating Hot Spares inYour Storage 
Pool.
 -- richard

> 
>  So far I saw adding hot spares dedicated to a certain pool.
> And perhaps scripts to detach-attach hotspares between pools
> when bad things happen - but that takes some latency (parsing
> logs or cronjobs with "zpool status" output - if that does
> not hang on problems, etc.)
> 
>  Are there any kernel-side implementations?
> 
> Thanks,
> //Jim Klimov
> 
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