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Had an idea, could someone please tell me why it''s wrong? (I feel like it has to be). A RaidZ-2 pool with one missing disk offers the same failure resilience as a healthy RaidZ1 pool (no data loss when one disk fails). I had initially wanted to do single parity raidz pool (5disk), but after a recent scare decided raidz2 was the way to go. With the help of a sparse file (''mkfile -n 2000G'') offlined after pool creation, I was able to start using my pool before my 6th disk arrived. Once it''s here, I''ll swap it in for the sparse file and l...