ZFS pool restructuring and emergency repair

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Quartz wrote:

>> Although in one of Matt Ahrens talks at BSDCan he spoke of plans to
>> change this.  Essentially you'ld be able to offline a vdev, and a
>> background process (like scrub) would copy all the data blocks from that
>> device to elsewhere in the pool.  Once finished, the devices making up
>> the vdev could be physically removed.
>
> Oh, that would be nice. Was there a timeline guesstimate for when that would 
> be implemented, or was it more a "maybe someday" thing?

This has been planned for perhaps 8 years already.  Still in the 
original status.

Bob
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