How about attaching the slow storage and kick off a 
scrub during the nights ? Then detach in the morning ?

Downside: you are running an unreplicated pool during the
day. Storage side errors won't be recoverable.

-r

Albert Shih writes:
 >  Le 04/12/2006 à 21:24:26-0800, Anton B. Rang a écrit
 > > It is possible to configure ZFS in the way you describe, but your 
 > > performance will be limited by the older array.
 > > 
 > > All mirror writes have to be stored on both arrays before they are 
 > > considered complete, so writes will be as slow as the slowest disk or 
 > > array involved.
 > > 
 > 
 > OK. 
 > 
 > It's possible to configure the server, the high level raid array, and the
 > pool of my old array raid to do :
 > 
 >      1/ When the server read/write he do from high level raid
 >      2/ The server make a copie of all data from high level raid to the
 >      pool of my old array «when he have the time». But I want this
 >      automatics. I don't want this by using something like rsync.
 > 
 > What I want to do is make a NFS server with the new high level raid array
 > with primary data. But I want also using my old-low-level raid array to
 > make backup (in case I'm lost my high-level raid array) and only backup.
 > 
 > Do you think ZFS can help me ?
 > 
 > Best regards
 > 
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