one of the reasons i like zfs…
I got home from work tonight and zfs had reported that one of the disks in my main pool was dying. no great problem. insert a disk i had spare, and run zpool replace like so: ganesh:~# zpool replace -f export scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EARS-00_WD-WMAV50933036 scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_9VP16X03 and now it’s just a matter of waiting until the data has “resilvered” and i can remove the old dying drive. ganesh:~# zpool status export -v pool: export state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently …