On Jun 14, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Fred Liu wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 星期三, 六月 15, 2011 11:59 >> To: Fred Liu >> Cc: Jim Klimov; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs global hot spares? >> >> On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Fred Liu wrote: >> >>> What is the difference between warm spares and hot spares? >> >> Warm spares are connected and powered. Hot spares are connected, >> powered, and automatically brought online to replace a "failed" disk. >> The reason I'm leaning towards warm spares is because I see more >> replacements than "failed" disks... a bad thing. >> -- richard >> > > You mean so-called "failed" disks replaced by hot spares are not really > physically damaged? Do I misunderstand?
That is not how I would phrase it, let's try: assuming the disk is failed because you can't access it or it returns bad data is a bad assumption. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
