FreeBSD 10 and zfsd.
Alan Somers
asomers at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 11 20:27:44 UTC 2013
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Good catch. I obviously still have a lot of merging to do.
>
>
>> --
>> Allan Jude
>>
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