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Re: zpool import skips wedges due to a race condition



Michael van Elst wrote:
> There are other issues with scanning devices in an arbitrary order,
> a parallel scan just makes it worse by adding randomness.

The order doesn't have to be arbitrary, the kernel can be fixed
to return disk names in a well-defined order. A new zfs.disknames 
sysctl can be added to serve this specific purpose.

But I agree that doesn't solve a problem completely.

Alex


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