On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:13:33PM +0800, Steven Sim wrote:
> Could someone elaborate more on the statement "metadata drives 
> reconstruction"...

ZFS starts from the ubberblock and works its way down (think recursive
tree traversal) the metadata to find all live blocks and rebuilds the
replaced vdev's contents accordingly.  No need to rebuild unused blocks.

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