zpool(8) says hot spares work

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 20 22:22:02 UTC 2015


On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It would be nice if zpool(8) said that hot spares don't work.
>
> This is a page synced from upstream, but other ZFS man pages contain
> FreeBSD-specific notes about missing functionality.
>
> Or is there some reason it shouldn't? Is this worth a PR?

There is a CAVEATS section that mentions this issue ... but it's all the
way at the end of a long page.

I cannot comment about the reasonableness of a more intrusive patch
without doing research for which I do not have time at the moment.

-Ben


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