Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: ZFS hotplug supportandautoconfiguration

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Elling
workaround below... Richard Elling wrote: Anton B. Rang wrote: Is this because C would already have a devid? If I insert an unlabeled disk, what happens? What if B takes five minutes to spin up? If it never does? N.B. You get different error messages from the disk. If a disk is not ready

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: ZFS hotplug supportandautoconfiguration

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Elling
Anton B. Rang wrote: Is this because C would already have a devid? If I insert an unlabeled disk, what happens? What if B takes five minutes to spin up? If it never does? N.B. You get different error messages from the disk. If a disk is not ready then it will return a not ready code and the s

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal: ZFS hotplug supportandautoconfiguration

2007-03-22 Thread Anton B. Rang
> > Consider a server [with] three drives, A, B, and C, in which A and B are > > mirrored and > > C is not. Pull out A, B, and C, and re-insert them as A, C, and B. If > > B is slow to come up for some reason, ZFS will see "C" in place of > > "B", and happily reformat it into a mirror of "A". (Or