ZFS Drive change best practice.

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:21:29AM +1000, Danny Carroll wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > After some more tests I'll commit changes that make ZFS to always depend
> > on metadata only.
> > 
> 
> So I guess that means in the future, you could power down a system,
> re-arrange the disk positions and when you powered back up ZFS would
> just work?

Yes. I committed needed changes earlier today.

> Could I also ask what the usual lead time is for ZFS changes to go from
> current -> stable?  I'm just curious.

There is no fixed time, it all depends on much testing will it receive
and how many bugs will be there plus when *at() syscalls will be MFCed.

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