Vincent Fox wrote:
> Let's say you are paranoid and have built a pool with 40+ disks in a Thumper.
>
> Is there a way to set metadata copies=3 manually?
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> After having built RAIDZ2 sets with 7-9 disks and then pooled these together, 
> it just seems like a little bit of extra insurance to increase metadata 
> copies.  I don't see a need for extra data copies which is currently the only 
> trigger I see for that.
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ZFS already does something like this for metadata by setting either 2 or 
3 copies based on the metadata type. Take a look at 
dmu_get_replication_level().

- George
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