On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote:
> 
> One thing I would pay attention to is the future world of native ZFS
> root.  On a thumper, you only have two drives which are bootable from
> the BIOS.  For any application in which reliability is important, you
> would have these two drives mirrored as your root filesystem.  There can
> be no hot spares for this pool, because any device you hot spare in will
> not be readable from the BIOS.

Of course, now I went back and checked the original message and noted
that you are only dealing with 46 disks, not 48.  So you're one step
ahead of me ;-)

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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