On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
That might be acceptable in some environments but that is going to cause disks to spin up. That will be very unacceptable in a laptop and maybe even in some energy conscious data centres.
Introduce an option to 'zpool create'? Come to think of it, describing attributes for a pool seems to be lacking (unlike zfs volumes)
What you are proposing sounds a lot like a cluster hear beat which IMO really should not be implemented by writing to disks.
That would be an extreme example of the use for this. While it / could/ be used as a heart beat mechanism, it would be useful administratively.
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