FreeBSD 10 and zfsd.

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:

> On 2013-10-11 04:27, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 03:24:51 -0400
> > Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2013-10-11 03:02, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> >>> Johan Hendriks wrote:
> >>>> When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot
> >>>> spares are not possible on FreeBSD.
> >>>> I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would
> >>>> be included in FreeBSD 10.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be
> >>>> used?
> >>>>
> >>>> regards
> >>>> Johan Hendriks
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks all for the explanation and your time
> >>> A notice in the handbook may be a good thing to let new FreeBSD
> >>> users know that you can add spares, but that it is not a hot spare.
> >>> So human action is required to activate the spare.
> >>>
> >>> regards
> >>> Johan Hendriks
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> >> That bit is in the zfs handbook project branch, it just isn't
> >> published yet
> >>
> > ... so it isn't visible to the "normal" users.
> >
> > I would also appreciate a hint in the man page of zpool(8). Like
> > "Be aware: A spare declared vdev is not (yet) automatically replacing a
> > faulty rendered drive. Human action is still required."
> >
> > It could save some trouble in prevention.
> >
> > Oliver
> Lyndon Nerenberg attached a patch for the man page earlier in the
> thread, and I have forwarded that to the docs team
>
>
I was under the impression rc_setvar was dropped from rc.d scripts

i believe it should be


rcvar=`zfsd`

for /etc/rc.d/zfsd


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