On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > I have a pool (on an X4540 running S10U8) in which a disk failed, and the > hot spare kicked in. That's perfect. I'm happy. > > Then a second disk fails. > > Now, I've replaced the first failed disk, and it's resilvered and I have my > hot spare back. > > But: why hasn't it used the spare to cover the other failed drive? And > can I hotspare it manually? I could do a straight replace, but that > isn't quite the same thing.
Hot spares are only activated in response to a fault received by the zfs-retire FMA agent. There is no notion that the spares should be re-evaluated when they become available at a later point in time. Certainly a reasonable RFE, but not something ZFS does today. You can 'zpool attach' the spare like a normal device - that's all that the retire agent is doing under the hood. Hope that helps, - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
