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Hi. I''ve been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don''t understand the distinction between "adding" a device and "attaching" a device to a pool? TIA This message posted from opensolaris.org

I have a strange problem with a faulted zpool (two way mirror): [root at einstein;0]~# zpool status poolm pool: poolm state: FAULTED scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM poolm UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas mirror UNAVAIL 0 0 0 corrupted data c2t0d0s0 ONLINE 0

I''m putting together a NexentaOS (b65)-based server that has 4 500 GB drives on it. Currently it has two, set up as a ZFS mirror. I''m able to boot Nexenta from it, and it seems to work ok. But, as I''ve learned, the mirror is not properly redundant, and so I can''t just have a drive fail (when I pull one, the OS ends up hanging, and even if I replace it, I have to

Hi, I don''t know if this has been discussed before, but have you thought about adding LZO compression to ZFS? One zfs-fuse user has provided a patch which implements LZO compression, and he claims better compression ratios *and* better speed than lzjb. The miniLZO library is licensed under the GPL, but the author specifically says that other licenses are available by request. Has this