Peter Schuller wrote: >> Yep. It's as simple as: >> >> * label all the drives using glabel, while they're still attached to the >> pool >> * use "zpool replace pool ad4 label/disk01" to replace 1 drive >> * wait for it to resilver >> * use "zpool replace pool ad6 label/disk02" to replace the next drive >> * repeat the resilver and replace until all the devices are replaced > > While I can see this working "most of the time" - is there any reason > to believe it is guaranteed to? glabel keeps meta data at the end of > the device; is it guaranteed that ZFS is not using that part of the > device actively? (For example by having a policy to reserve some > amount at the end.) > Indeed, I find this paper really interesting: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf HenriReceived on Thu Jul 16 2009 - 06:28:45 UTC
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