hot spare

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    Spare on ZFS Pool INUSE

    If i have all the Disks OK why the spare one is INUSE? zpool status -v pool: STORAGE state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 11:48:03 with 0 errors on Sun Dec 10 12:12:04 2023 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM STORAGE...
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    Best way to have hot spare + backup at the same time with PVE on ZFS (with pvesr & sanoid)

    Syncoid (dataset synchronization between two different machines) and Sanoid (creation and prune of snapshots) are two ZFS (high-level) tools that combined give you hot spares (syncoid) and backups (sanoid) to roll back to them if necessary. Proxmox has the storage replication feature (pvesr)...
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    How to add a hot spare hdd to the proxmox - zfs file system on an EFI-based system…

    For Legacy system: zpool add rpool spare / dev / disk / by-id / ... In this case the full hdd is added, but this may not be good on the EFI system due to the following: - Under the EFI system, proxmox ZFS creates an ESP (vfat) partition, from where the boot load takes place. - BOOT, EFI, and...