On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm seeing some rather bad resilver times for a pool of WD Green drives (I 
> know, bad drives, but leave that). Does resilver go through the whole pool or 
> just the VDEV in question?

Resilvers are done in time order.  The metadata is traversed starting with the 
first
txg and moving forward to the current txg.  The good news is that only data is
resilvered. The bad news for HDD fans is that HDDs do not like random workloads.
 -- richard

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