Fascinating read, thanks Simon!
I have been using ZFS in production data center for some while now, but it
never occurred to me to use iSCSI with ZFS also.
This gives me some ideas on how to backup our mail pools into some older slower
disks offsite. I find it interesting that while a local ZF
If you are really sure that disks c5t2d0 and c5t6d0 are not in use by
anyone and want to add them as spares, then dd'ing 0s over the labes
should suffice (front and back labels). Usual warnings about dd'ing
0s over a disk apply here. I'd probably do one at a time.
eric
On Apr 2, 2008, at
Thanks a lot, glad you liked it :)
Yes I agree, using older, slower disks in this way for backups seems a nice way
to reuse old kit for something useful.
There's one nasty problem I've seen with making a pool from an iSCSI disk
hosted on a different machine, and that is that if you turn off the
