sethgoldin
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- May 9, 2015
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Running 11.1-U6. My pool consists of:
However, I had expected the hot spare to somehow automatically rebuild for the offlined drive, but it's still showing as "available."
What is the actual purpose of logically assigning a drive to be a hot spare, if it doesn't just automatically rebuild for the offlined drive? What is the hot spare workflow?
- Four 11-drive RAID-Z3 vdevs
- Two striped L2ARC SSDs
- One hot spare
However, I had expected the hot spare to somehow automatically rebuild for the offlined drive, but it's still showing as "available."
What is the actual purpose of logically assigning a drive to be a hot spare, if it doesn't just automatically rebuild for the offlined drive? What is the hot spare workflow?