[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hot spare not kicking in on drive fault

[Sebastian Gabler]

Hi,

today I had a faulted disk in one of my pools. For some reason, the hot 
spare did not kick in, meaning the status was "available".

The last thing I did about that hot spare was a zpool clear poolname, 
upon which it became available again automatically.

Now, strange enough that pool had autoreplace set to the default, which 
is "off".  If I understand the documentation at
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gcvdi/index.html
correctly, it should have stayed INUSE, then.

It's still not obvious what prevented the hot spare to become "INUSE" 
upon the drive fault.

Anybody?

Best regards,

Sebastian