Or maybe, it just unallocated those blocks, and says "that data there? just ignore it". Which to me is more likely.
-Blake
On 2/17/06, Adrian Ulrich toaster@blinkenlights.ch wrote:
I don't belive spares_zero acutally overwrites data,
It does.
Proof: Adding a 'zeroed-out' disk to an aggr/trad_volume takes just a few seconds.
Why? -> Because the filer *knows* that the disk is filled with \0's so the parity-disk does not have to care about the new disk.