Hi,
This is not exactly ZFS specific, but this still seems like a
fruitful place to ask.
It occurred to me today that hot spares could sit in standby (spun
down) until needed (I know ATA can do this, I'm supposing SCSI does
too, but I haven't looked at a spec recently). Does anybody do this?
Or does everybody do this already?
Does the tub curve (chance of early life failure) imply that hot
spares should be burned in, instead of sitting there doing nothing
from new? Just like a data disk, seems to me you'd want to know if a
hot spare fails while waiting to be swapped in. Do they get tested
periodically?
--Toby
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